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Back in those days, cassette equipment could be loosely divided into two categories: (1) hifi equipment for listening to music and (2) voice quality battery operated portable cassette recorders with a handle and a built-in speaker. (Walkman and knockoffs also existed as kind of a hybrid of these two.)

There were also hifi and voice quality categories of blank cassette tapes.

The voice quality stuff was generally good enough for 8-bit computers.

FM radio was probably somewhere between the two, at least given good conditions. So it seems like it would have worked fine. I never tried it myself. I did hear a news story about it, but it never became available in my area.



I saw the comment in the article about FM being less reliable and my brain went immediately to "yup, that'll be the compressor"




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