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Press Play and Rewind at the same time?

Posted by Garg0yle (A) on August 20, 2015 at 13:42:34

When I was a kid the music teacher would come to class once a week.
When she was queuing up songs on her ghetto blaster, she would for example press play and fast forward at the same time. The tape deck would then skip ahead and then play at the beginning of the next song.
This worked with recorded tapes and purchased tapes.

Back then I guess I was already an audio dweeb as I was fascinated by this technology. (Only one in my class remotely interested I might add.)

For my 8th birthday I was lucky enough to receive a Sony CFS-450 with the "3D Super Woofer".
Despite be advised not to do this "trick" by my Dad, I did and within a few months the tape deck broke.

Back in the '80s it took forever to get something like that fixed. I remember asking ol Dad everyday when he got home from work if it was fixed yet.

Anyhow so to this day I wonder if this was an intentional feature designed into tape decks?
The Music teacher had that tape deck for I bet 10 years, doing the two button trick daily in her classes.
My Sony would do this trick, but obviously was playing and rewinding at the same time as it broke a belt.

Did anybody else do this?

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Edits: 08/20/15

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