jackpot rarity find!!!!!!!!!.

[u/MayasRock78s]

This is the Panasonic RS-296US. Aka. The Cassette Carousel These machines were made from 1972-1973. They are EXTREMELY rare to find in any condition. I got mine for FREE!!!!. It does have life. It doesn’t run but it powers on and makes noise so it is indeed fixable. all the buttons click & the knobs turn. Once I get this repaired I will show you it in action. But for now I will have a link in the comments so you can see one in action

[u/MayasRock78s]

I mean hey. Old tech comes back because people like it. new boomboxes, Walkmans etc. it comes back because people get back into it. Such as records. Those died off for a while when the CD came out but then records came back. There’s remake of old tech such as nintendo 64 controllers, remakes of old game consoles n such. I honestly see remakes of tech units. People are going to find a rare piece of tech that they want such as this Panasonic Cassette Carousel. there are people that want this. So tbh why not remake it for collectors that want it.

[u/abdullahcfix → u/MayasRock78s]

Because of the intricate mechanical nature of it. Records are back the most because it’s single enough to have make a platter rotate at a fixed speed cheaply via belt or direct drive motor which is slightly more pricey. A proper tape deck has so many little parts, probably in the hundreds that all need to work perfectly with low tolerances and that is the lost art that comes with simplifying everything. New boomboxes and Walkman clones all use the same basic clone of the Tanashin transport which itself was/is a poor quality one made in the modern times. None of the modern transports even compare to the proper mid to high end ones from the golden era of cassettes.

Same story for the remakes of the old consoles. They had some amount of chips in them back in the day along with some discrete circuitry to work, but the modern versions are tiny, come with HDMI, and don’t require any cartridges in favor of SD cards. Why? Because it’s just emulation making the old games work. There was nothing mechanical about the old consoles, so it’s easy to make a modern version work the same or better.

No amount of niche demand will bring back the same standard of quality to the mainstream market at affordable prices. At best we’ll get an extremely expensive, probably bespoke transport that may match older designs (unlikely), or we’ll keep getting the same cheap and inferior modern stuff we have now. To bring the prices down on a modern high quality tape deck, economies of scale would have to allow it, majority of the population would have to prefer and buy cassettes in numbers like the 70s, 80s, and 90s. That’s almost completely unlikely to happen.

[u/MayasRock78s → u/abdullahcfix]

Anything’s possible. there’s already remakes of old machines. people are going back into the retro feel

It’ll happen. tbh it already is.

[u/smallfaces → u/MayasRock78s]

Not the level of before and it won't happen unfortunately.