A Cassette Deck: HP 82161

HP 82161 Digital Cassette Drive with cassette, packaging and owner's manual. Enlarge
Front of the 82161 Digital Cassette Drive. Enlarge
Back of the 82161 Digital Cassette Drive featuring inputs. Enlarge
Top of the 82161 Digital Cassette Drive with buttons, indicator lights and flip-up slot for the cassette. Enlarge
Front of an HP Mini Data Cassette in protective case. Enlarge
Back of an HP Mini Data Cassette in protective case. Enlarge
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Date: 1981

Mini-cassette drives offered magnetic data storage in small, robust packages, making them handy for use with portable devices like calculators. Codenamed Filbert, the 82161 was designed to work with the HP 41 calculator but would find use in multiple devices that used the HP-IL interface bus.

Tags: 1980s • 1981 • Peripheral • portable • storage

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