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Re:The last audio cassette factory [video] by 11thEarlOfMar on Friday September 04, 2015 @02:18AM (#10169034)
My first guess was 'ho-hum, somewhere in the bowels of China and who cares'.

Then I noticed the Vietnamese media name and thought, 'oh, it's in Vietnam. A little more interesting.'

But it's in Springfield Missouri. What?

They have Revox(!) components.

The label printer is affixed with duct tape.

They have equipment from 1938. It's fully depreciated :-)

Re:The last audio cassette factory [video] by hga on Friday September 04, 2015 @08:38AM (#10169989)
Web version/framing of this: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-01/this-compa...

Rather cool, we do all sorts of interesting things in flyover country, Springfield, MO is 70 miles east of where I was born, raised, and have retired to.

Re:The last audio cassette factory [video] by Isofarro on Friday September 04, 2015 @06:36AM (#10169631)
I bought a bunch of cassette tapes earlier this year from Tapeline (tapeline.info). Based in Stockport, Cheshire, UK. Bought both custom-length blank cassettes (for replacing broken ZX Spectrum game cassette tapes), and cassette boxes (single and jewel case).
Re:The last audio cassette factory [video] by dct on Friday September 04, 2015 @06:48AM (#10169664)
The police still use them a lot: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20556330
Re:The last audio cassette factory [video] by Torgo on Friday September 04, 2015 @12:25PM (#10171424)
Did they intentionally add tape hiss to the video???
Re:The last audio cassette factory [video] by yincrash on Friday September 04, 2015 @08:59PM (#10173500)
video removed