Comment on You really have to reach back to remember how THIS worked in your car

Rade0nfighter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• zurohki@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Instead of running a magnetic tape over the cassette player’s sensor, you put an electromagnet on it powered by the headphone jack. The cassette player just reads the magnetic field and doesn’t know any difference.

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  • stebo02@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    damn I thought it was writing the tape in real time that would be insane

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• Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You shoved the cassette into your car radio and plugged the other end into a cd player

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  • peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Computer Engineer here, studied QED and E&M.

    This is the most accurate answer

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• ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The player reads a magnetic tape. Put the same stuff inside the cassette and reverse it, now the player reads a reader.

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• burgersc12@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Technology connections explains it very well

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  • Rade0nfighter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Great explanation I get it now!

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