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No manual. Your hands remember.

Fig 2Radio cassette recorderDrag to turn itoff

Turn the dial across five imagined stations and two real live broadcasts. The cassette already has something on it.

Rituals

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Sound starts with your first touch. A cassette in your hand goes with you from one machine to the other. Everything you do is remembered on this device.

Live on the dial: RetroStrange Radio 2 at 91.7 MHz (public-domain vintage music) and Audio Landing Radio at 102.1 MHz (CC0 piano performances). The stations stream directly from their broadcasters and need a connection. Record them onto the cassette to hear the same audio later.

Never used one?

Drag a machine to turn it. Pinch, or tap twice, to look closer.
On the deck: circle the tuning wheel on the right-hand end; turn the volume knob on top. Tap the aerial to swing it up. PLAY, REW and F.FWD stay down; STOP lets them up and EJECT opens the door. To record, hold REC and press PLAY.
With a door or lid open: tap the cassette to take it out, tap it again to turn it over, swipe it up or tap the door to put it back.
On the personal stereo: STOP opens the lid. Slide the paired volume controls; hold the orange HOT LINE button (or T) to lower the music. The battery box is on the back. The pencil and the remote on the bench are there for a reason.
On the watch: LIGHT top left, MODE bottom left, ALARM on the right. MODE goes time, alarm, stopwatch, setting. The words printed on the face press their buttons too. Leave the radio, a tape, or a recording running and it carries on while you are at the watch.
Keys: 1 2 3 machine P play , rewind . forward S stop E eject R record (hold) Space pause ← → tune or wind ↑ ↓ volume C cassette F flip D close H battery box B remote N pencil [ ] turn Z look closer. On the watch: L light M mode A alarm.