From: acornish@imm.cnrs.fr   
      
   On 2019-04-12 10:04:19 +0000, J. P. Gilliver (John) said:   
      
   > 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   
      
   Come to that I have indeed a machine for doing that, but I bought it to   
   convert LPs to MP3, and I forgot that it can do other things.   
      
      
   >  - 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-US   
   -Cassette-Tape-to-MP3-CD-Player-Converter/183769984713?hash=item   
   ac98b6ec9:g:Z40A   
   >   
   > AOSwcOtciizR   
   > for 7.99 pounds; you should find something similar on ebay fr.   
      
      
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