• hefty4871@lemmy.ca
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    20 hours ago

    I thought the cassette was a proprietary shape that wouldn’t allow you to put any other ones in.

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      20 hours ago

      The one I had, I remember it had a regular cassette. I think it was recorded in some proprietary way, as I remember the mouth and eyes movement was synchronized to the recording, but I was still able to play it in my walkman.

      Edit: found this in Wikipedia: “Later versions replaced the cassette with a digital cartridge.[5]”

      So you probably had the new version. Mine was from the late 80s.

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      They could play any tape, but it wouldn’t move to the music unless it was one made for it probably had extra data on the teddy specific cassettes.

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      16 hours ago

      Now that you mention it, I can’t think of any sort of proprietary tape. They were either standard or small.