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Mysterious Cassette Player At American Science And Surplus

July 11, 2007
Cassette Player at American Science and Surplus
Back at American Science and Surplus, we ponder the eternal question of how exactly certain celebrities associate their names with certain products, and why those products end up where they do... in any case, this item can be quite useful. And cheap! More tips from veteran tinkerer Rob Warmowski, and some collegial chortling as well. Watch the Gearwire video for all this and more.
Discover many mysteries at the official American Science and Surplus site.

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Hey, I remember that...

By: Chgogrrl (not verified)
I remember that cassette player, here it is:http://www.jane-fonda.net/history.html (scroll down to the middle of the page for cassette player).
Thu, 2007-07-12 09:37

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GRETCHEN HASSE: Are you going to be down there the whole time?

ROB WARMOWSKI: I bet you this is for -- [CHUCKLES] Look at this. Can you pick that up?

GRETCHEN HASSE: Jane Fonda. Oh, please.

ROB WARMOWSKI: [LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY]

GRETCHEN HASSE: Hold on, hold on. Yes. Jane Fonda.

ROB WARMOWSKI: [STILL LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY AND SNORTS]

GRETCHEN HASSE: [LAUGHING] Yes.

ROB WARMOWSKI: The biggest question you will ever get when shopping at American Science and Surplus is why? How did this get here? Why does Jane Fonda's name appear on this cassette tape deck? We don't know. We just don't know. We also know -- We also -- We're not sure why it's oriented like this but it seems to me, I'm going to guess, that this tape deck was designed to be mounted in sort of the cockpit or the roof section of like a recreational vehicle or a van or something like that. That's my best guess because it clearly is to be mounted like this, and as you can see the orientation of the buttons here. If you'd like to experiment with these to actually get sound out of them, they are powered by two AA batteries, as you can see in there, and there's also what appears to be an audio out here. You would have to get in tight with alligator clips. So, you circuit benders, they'll have no problem there. You got that kind of gear to get that signal out and run it into something. So, between making, you know that you got the power from the batteries and you know that you can expect some audio out of here, how much is this going to set you back to experiment? Well, it says here $4.50, and they got a whole ton of these. So, if you'd like to do an installation or you'd like to do a performance piece where you've got a bunch of different cassettes playing back simultaneously from different decks, $4.50 a crack plus your time in wiring and experimentation, and you can get that happening with a trip to American Science & Surplus.

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