Tape Loading
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A padded envelope of free 8-bit tapes from Graeme Mason: Amstrad CPC classics, two Mastertronic Atari games and an MSX title for my poorly Toshiba HX-10.
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A wobbly header tone means a slipping belt. I clean and flip the belt on a 1980s Cathay computer cassette deck, clean the pinch roller and heads, and set the azimuth.
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A mystery 8-bit parcel from Matt Marr: a fairly clean ZX Spectrum +3, a vintage tape player, a boxed Cheetah 125 and a big pile of games.
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Corroded ALPS key contacts and a faulty 8-pin DIN cassette socket brought my Toshiba HX-10 MSX back from the dead.
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A kind donation from Scott Goodman: another Amstrad CPC464, hopefully with a working tape deck for my project machine, plus a possible wrong-PSU power fault to investigate.