Agreed, definitely stop there. You only have 10/36 chance of getting a useful piece, and 24/36 = two-thirds chance of losing the useful pieces you've already got!

It looks great with the opaque red pieces!

(Yes I know "pakala lawa" or "utala lawa" would be a more accurate translation.)

I do have tapes that aren't in Esperanto too... this one's in toki pona! It's a home-made one and quite possibly the only cassette of toki pona music in the whole world (please prove me wrong, I'd like to meet fellow toki pona retro tech enthusiasts!)

Incidentally, I really like the way the giant 1 and 2 on this cassette label look through the window. I usually copy that style on the labels of tapes I make myself.

Deck is fully serviced and calibrated, so now for some music... en Esperanto, kompreneble!

Not bad. The frequency is supposed to be as close to 3000 Hz as possible, and the wow and flutter as low as possible. I don't have a lab-grade test tape, so the w&f on the recording is unspecified and so the machine is actually performing quite a bit better than that already reasonable figure.

Top marks to Denon for the mechanism with the most easily replaced belt I've ever seen. It took me a while to pry the front of the case open, but once I'd done that I just had to remove two screws and it was right there. I was expecting it to take all day but I'm done in under half an hour!

For me, the main feeling of the last few years has been "that's gone and it's never coming back" in so many different ways.

Where's it from? I feel like I've missed out!

Thanks!

I don't know that one and can't find it. Please could you send me a link? :)

Vidu la alt-tekston... :)

Estimating this at 1975, the jacket potato's price of 15p is about £1.18 in today's money. And I'm assuming it's a very small pizza that costs less than half as much as a ham salad!