> > I guessing you aren't after "hi-fi" results from this? 
> 
> Not even close. Something similar to one of those handheld tape
> recorders would be fine. I'm thinking about using it to store FSK
> encoded data, or maybe just speech.
> At the moment I just want to get some sound out of this thing :)

The old Commodore Datasette used, IIRC (a long time since I
had one apart), a 7406 or similar to drive the record head with
logic. Playback was only a little more complex. With anything
but the very poorest quality cassettes they were reliable, and the
addition of an azimuth adjustment + signal strength LED meant
you could "tune" them to any tape, eg commercial or another,
mis-aligned Datasette recording

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