Cassette just means a small case, compact enough that you can plug the entire case straight into your machine. A “normal” sized case would be one of those metal canisters that store 8mm movie reels, and you need to take the tape out of those to use them.
Kind of cool that as storage media on tape shrunk in physical size and grew in data storage the term cassette started to change use in shorthand parlance.
frog@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I never heard any one call those cassettes. Everyone I know just called then tapes. But your usage is correct according to Wikipedia.
I always figured cassettes were small.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Video Cassette Recorder, VCR.
As opposed to reel-to-reel video recorders:
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Iunnrais@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Cassette just means a small case, compact enough that you can plug the entire case straight into your machine. A “normal” sized case would be one of those metal canisters that store 8mm movie reels, and you need to take the tape out of those to use them.
LePoisson@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Kind of cool that as storage media on tape shrunk in physical size and grew in data storage the term cassette started to change use in shorthand parlance.
It’s a generic term but yeah to everyone nowadays a cassette would be one of these: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_tape
That wiki article has more examples in it of older ones too and competitors if you feel like a little random reading.
frog@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
That’s what I think of when I hear cassette. Thanks for the link!