From: G6JPG-255@255soft.uk   
      
   In message , Athel Cornish-Bowden   
    writes:   
   >On 2019-04-11 23:31:15 +0000, J. P. Gilliver (John) said:   
   []   
   >>  Another source might be correspondence - "tapespondence"; I know my   
   >>gran (Bedlington, Northumberland, England) and her brother in America   
   >>used to correspond by tape. Not sure but I think I may have one   
   >>cassette of him ...   
   >   
   >Now THAT's an idea. One of my sisters once persuaded my parents to make   
   >a cassette to send to her in Hong Kong. I don't know if it still   
   >exists, or if a modern machine can read it. It sounded extremely   
   >artificial, because neither of them had the idea of speaking off the   
   >cuff, so they wrote everything down first and read it out loud.   
   []   
   I hope your sister still has the cassette (or you do). I'm not sure what   
   you mean by a "modern machine", but you should have no problem finding a   
   cassette player in a charity shop or similar; if you are daunted by the   
   task of capturing, you can get cassette players that record direct to   
   USB these days - put "cassette to USB" into ebay and you'll find plenty.   
   For ebay uk, I found   
   https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Portable-Cassette-Player-Walkman-USB-   
   assette-Tape-to-MP3-CD-Player-Converter/183769984713?hash=item2ac98b6ec9:g:Z40A   
   AOSwcOtciizR   
   for 7.99 pounds; you should find something similar on ebay fr.   
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