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One comment talks about "rewinding cassette tapes".

• protomyth 16y ago
  The "spin it using a pen" technique was the true winner.
  • Timothee 16y ago
    Until you did one spin wrong and it would start spinning the other way :) It's interesting though that the most common 6-sided pencil would fit perfectly for the cassettes. Had the hole been just a bit bigger or smaller and it wouldn't have worked. I remember a friend in junior high using a pen to rewind to spare his walkman batteries…
    • protomyth 16y ago
      We did it because Pioneer car stereos took forever to rewind. They went faster on fast forward then the rewind (so flip, ff, flip). I really wish I could get a transcript of the meeting that affected the rewind speed.
• nikcub 16y ago
  Rewinding rental videos was a pain. I remember my local store used to find people for not rewinding rental tapes. I still make that joke when I return DVD's sometimes. I would open it and look at the DVD as I return it, and say 'just checking that I rewinded it' - the 18 year old clerks have no idea what I am talking about.