From a slightly different perspective?

Analogue tape is far from a dying medium - nor is vinyl!

An awful lot of music is still recorded using 16 and 24 track tape - the two that spring instantly to mind are Kean and Nora Jones and the extreme - The White Stripes (I know that none are even close to on-topic here, but folk albums don't tend to get write ups in the technical press!) The process is record absolutely everything you could possibly want to tape, then dump it onto ProTools and edit and mix digitally. It may seem like this a waste of time and energy, but Studer saw enough of a market to re-issue the last 24 track machine it made, and plenty of people still feel that analogue has something to offer in terms of sound.

As for vinyl!!!

I don't suppose many people reading this spend much time clubbing - nor do I. But you won't find many proffesional DJs using anything but vinyl when they play in a club. I am talking about serious DJs, Fat Boy Slim and the like, but dance musc still sells large quantity of vinyl, and many more mainstream bands still release singles and eps on vinyl.

None of which has anything to do with cassette tapes. I'm not sure that Quantegy (or Ampex before them) ever made cassettes?

None of which helps the original poster at all! Sorry about that.

Someone mentioned the Sony Pro-Walkman? Fantastic piece of kit - the first Michelle Shocked (Vaguely folk?) album was recorded on one.

Sorry to go so far off topic,

Cheers