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Steve,
Standard Dictophone microcassettes won't work in the digital cassette drive. They are too small. The cassettes used in the digital cassette drive have a slightly, and I'm not sure if they are sold for use in other devices that are available today.
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Steve- I certainly hope you are correct. That phrase does suggest there is an alternate. I just obtained an HP IL player with one cassette. I noted the cassette inserts single sided only when it appeared there was a bad patch near the tape's end and tried to flip it. The -dir- funtion worked most of the time, but as the data was not usable to me I sought to initialize the tape to write new data. The tape appears to go all through its sequence, but right at the end, there's a -medm err- or -drive err-, suggesting the tape is bad. So I'll second your query for a substitute.
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steve; in march 2000 jim carter (now) at interfab still had cassettes. cheap too. thats jimeducalc@tio.com or (949)582-2631. if theres none left; reinhard howel is going to get some data off a tape of mine someday and put it on another that i can read. if he sends them both back (i didnt ask him to) you can have the old one and should be able to re-"newm" it and use it.
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Steve,
If you have not already checked, Jim Carter does indeed have spare mini cassettes, apparently in some quantity, and they're quite inexpensive.
Good luck.