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If you hand a compact cassette to someone on the street today, you're likely to get just about any reaction - depending on the age group - from a dreamy smile to questioning, unsuspecting looks.

Of course, it was completely different in the 80s - who didn't give away their own mixtapes then ? 💔

But besides music, you could also store zeros and ones with the help of magnetic magic on a chromium dioxide or iron oxide plastic strip. And if you didn't have a rich uncle back then, who gifted you a 5.25'' floppy disk drive, you saved your (of course never pirated) games and programs on exactly these cassettes.

Only logical, that there were cassettes also as addition to magazines - Yps for nerds so to speak. One of them was Commodore Format, and the team behind Commodore Format Archive aka @CommodoreFormat lovingly takes care of the digital preservation of the printed gems from back then until today.

I didn't know Commodore Format until today - but luckily I had that rich uncle.... 👴