Ha, the TDK. They're ruled. 'High position' too, that's got to be quality. Best appreciated on Amstrad's finest stereo hardware. Nik Kershaw surely never sounded so good.
I used to experimentally press the metal/chrome button, and sometimes, if I was feeling very radical, the dolby button. That made everything sound a bit underwater and gave a tune a certain acquired benthic ambience. I think that's what ultimately drove me goth. That and a two-for-one deal on black hair dye in Boots.
It's strange that something as fundamental to my childhood has been rendered meaningless by the merciless march of time. I really did conduct relationships through the exchange of often badly copied music. And it was quite the thing to get crappy bootlegs of gigs down the market, just because you had so-and-so's 20-minute-before-they-stormed-off gig down Rock City. Anyone wants to know what was up-and-coming on the Ottawa music scene c95, I'm your man.
Don't get the C120s though, they'd always eventually meander around the tape heads and you'd spend hours trying to extricate and respool and even if you were successful, the dropouts would always be strategically placed to most annoy.
