Massive Free Cassette Haul

A lady gave me a big box of cassettes, including the complete series of Time Life's The Rock Collection, lots of pre-recorded albums, and some good blank cassettes. See below for info.

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Blank cassettes in this haul:
TDK CDing II
TDK SF100 (Type II) (early 1990 Version)
TDK SA90 with Minidisc ad on the inlay card, and a Super Avilyn
TDK D90
Sony FX1 / FXI
TDK AD90
BASF LH90
Hitachi UD C-60
Memorex Chromium Dioxide C60
Boots Audio UDV C120
Boots FI 90
PYE Head Cleaning Cassette
Philips CD One
Veritone Magnetic Recording Tape - Instant Loading Tape Cartridge

Pre-recorded cassettes include:
Head Over Heels TV Show compilation
Deep Forrest - Columbia Promo Cassette - Not for resale - Sweet Lullaby, Night Bird, Savana Dance.
Buddy Holly
Reader's Digest
Elton John
Greatest Hits of 1986
Status Quo
Barbara Dickson
Buster
Celine Dion
Stroy Time read by Susan Hampshire
Mariah Carey
Queen - The Works, and The Miracle
Savage Garden
Meatloaf
Dave Bessant
Now 15
Whitney Houston
Time Life - The Rock Collection - The entire series

[robison]

The TDK AD and SAs were excellent, used to have a lot of those back in the day.
Fair play to you recycling these and not letting them go to landfill.
I do sometimes consider getting back into cassettes although my deck is long gone.
Interesting video.

[monke]

The tape concaving can easily be fixed by playing it back and it smooths out, at least that’s what I’ve found with all tapes I’ve bought second hand

[hifi-lofi]

Wow! Great haul. I agree, keep the good ones and sell those you’re not interested in. I remember most of those tapes. I had some Boots tapes but I can’t remember anything about the quality except they perished years ago so I assume not so good.

[rodpostlethwaite]

I used to swap cassettes with a friend of mine back in the 70s and early 80s and he often used to give me Boots cassettes. They were usually poor quality and tended to break easily with the C-120s being the worst of the lot as the tape was very thin. The inlay card design looks different to the ones I remember so I would guess it would be mid to late 80s. Many of the chain stores used to sell their own brands such as WH Smith but I tended to give these a wide berth.

[AaronTasteKittens]

Congrats on winning the Reader’s Digest contest! 😂

[vals]

Do the smell test, true chrome tape has the smell of Crayons 🖍 the other type 2 that doesn't smell like crayons might be doped.

[bletheringfool]

If you ever find audio books I'm always on the lookout to listen on my Walkman when travelling. I'll check out your ebay link. I wonder if the 'concave' tape is from playing in the car stereo? Just a thought.

[knate]

Don't suppose you found any musicals? I'm a bit picky about the ones I like, but I'm willing to give most a try.

[NICKYCEsq]

@8.20 do you still have the cassette with the minidisc advert i would love to buy it cheers

[aronslegogbcs]

nice score i also find lots like these but i mainly look for the blank tapes as i collect those and if any pre recorded ones have chrome tape i record onto them any other prerecorded tapes as they are mainly junk i pull all the tape out everywhere just for fun. for some reason i always seam to get a beatles tape in the lots i buy and yes it gets destroyed by pulling the tape out of it.

[stevewhitcher]

Um think trying to sell 72 cassettes you got for free on ebay for £300 is a bit taking the wee wee! Cding 2 were the b grade sa at the time. Some say that they were the edge of the rolls, Not that much Type 1 cassettes are made anymore and no type 2 ( Technically NAC are making C756 but i havent actually see one, even a sample which i think speaks volumes) so we are stuck with the old stuff.

[davidwilliams]

The only downside is people didn't rewind the tape back & the tape Crinkles up & you would get dropouts or lose a channel it's highly annoying