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1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Backwards Message Hack
Article: 7373 of alt.hackers From: eburton@buphy.bu.edu (Erich Burton) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Backwards Message Hack Date: 13 Feb 1995 21:34:25 GMT Organization: Boston University Physics Department Lines: 24 Approved: Lcanter@cyber.sell.com Message-ID: 3hoj91$ocg@news.bu.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: buphy.bu.edu Status: RO
madst38+@pitt.edu (Mark Denovich) writes: :ObCorrectWayToHackPlayer: : :Take the tape head out and flip it, remount. Worked flawlessly on older :Panasonics. Yup, that works. I once bought an obscure Sonic Youth tape -- all the songs were backwards. Not like their untitled album on which side 2 was side 1 backwards, I mean _all_ of it was backwards. Even the _live_ performances. Weird. ObHack: I carefully took apart the cassette shell, swapped the position of the reels (without flipping them over), 'rewound' the tape the other way, and then flipped the reels. End result: the inside of the tape (away from the playback head) was now the outside, and the tape played "correctly" -- forwards. And ever since, "Freezer Burn/Now I Wanna Be Your Dog" has been in heavy rotation on my walkman. ____________________________________ Erich Burton 3-2602 eburton@bu.edu Boston University Physics Department
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