Tape Deck

Especially when the writer takes the time to edit and apply some creative skill in the task rather than just transcribing dialogue from a tape-deck. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Instead, our musical selection came from an Internet-connected smartphone that streamed Web radio to the nearest speakers through a cheap tape-deck adapter. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Exhaling one mint frosty breath, he thinks aloud to his empty tape-deck ❋ Youneverwin (2007)

The hump-back had turned round to watch the tape-deck. ❋ Hall, Adam, 1920- (1985)

Croder took out his cigarette-case and lit one of those black-tipped things he smoked, but he didn't look away from the tape-deck. ❋ Hall, Adam, 1920- (1985)

He lit up and turned away from the desk, so as not to watch the tape-deck. ❋ Hall, Adam, 1920- (1985)

I didn't know who the others were but obviously one of them was the head of the CIA over here and the two odd-looking types must be the technicians looking after the tape-deck and the sound spectrograph on the desk. ❋ Hall, Adam, 1920- (1985)

He was watching the tape-deck; he didn't catch Croder's glance. ❋ Hall, Adam, 1920- (1985)

Alana has brought a portable tape-deck and keeps playing the same INXS song, over and over; talk of the new Psychedelic Furs album goes around; Blair tells everyone that Muriel just got out of Cedars-Sinai; Alana mentions that she called Julian up to ask him if he wanted to come but there wasn't anyone home. ❋ Ellis, Bret Easton (1985)

Inside is a single room, with 42 folding chairs, a few prayer books, and a tape-deck boom box. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When I set it to 5 channels (which it should be set to), I hear a noise that sounds sort of like a tape-deck player running past the end of the reel ... is this digital data trying to be decoded? ❋ Unknown (2009)