These feel like absurdist questions of a previous generation, crazy reels of a forgotten 8-track tape.

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Thus, we must be certain the Cold War relics we keep (with their "eight-track tape" technology) function when called upon.

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They also do on the fly race track repairs with duct tape (really).

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It quoted Afrika Khumalo, the crime intelligence chief commissioner in the country's Gauteng province, as saying that surveillance cameras, visual and tape recordings and undercover policemen were used to track down the suspects.

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In the late '70s, when 24-track recording was possible but there was no reliable way to automate mixing, mixing records was a live performance, with the producer, the engineer and half the band called in to push faders up and down as the track was bounced to the master tape.

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