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Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

Datenträger Musikkassette

English translation:

which saved data on cassette tapes / cassette data storage

Added to glossary by Christine Lam
Oct 23, 2007 01:36
16 yrs ago
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German term

Datenträger Musikkassette

German to English Tech/Engineering Computers (general)
This is the story of a young fellow who grew up in the GDR.
Der Vater besorgte am Rand einer Tagung in Österreich einen portablen Sinclair ZX Spectrum mit der Leistung eines heutigen Taschenrechners, Datenträger Musikkassette, 3,5 Kilogramm schwer. Auf ihm schrieb ich meine ersten Programme, eine grafische Aufbereitung des mathematischen Beweises für den Innenwinkelsatz.

Datenträger = storage medium / data medium
Musikkassette = musical tape?
and how to combine the two in this context?

Tia
Proposed translations (English)
3 +6 which saved data on cassette tapes
4 +5 cassette data storage

Discussion

Christine Lam (asker) Oct 23, 2007:
@ Francis: this is an article (in a general interest magazine) about a young fellow growing up in the GDR who went on to become a Prof. in the USA at a very young age.
Francis Lee (X) Oct 23, 2007:
p.s. Perhaps our colleagues below have overseen the importance of the "music" element - IMO crucial, because it further stresses the old-skool-technology aspect. p.p.s a "musical tape" would be a cassette with e.g. songs from Annie or Evita ;-)
Francis Lee (X) Oct 23, 2007:
Context/readership?

Proposed translations

+6
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which saved data on cassette tapes

Of course "cassette data storage" is technically correct, but to me it sounds too technical for the style of this particular piece - I'd go for the sort of terminology one would use in everyday conversation.

"Music" is IMO irrelevant, because cassette tapes can be used for recording either music or speech.
Peer comment(s):
agree Steffen Walter : Works just as well, or even better :-)
57 mins
agree Hilary Davies Shelby : I think you're right about the style, Armorel - this would fit perfectly into the sentence
1 hr
agree Cetacea : Better in this context.
1 hr
agree Susan Zimmer
2 hrs
agree Ingeborg Gowans (X)
3 hrs
agree Dr.G.MD (X)
15 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "thank you both very much!"
+5
30 mins

cassette data storage

Many of the early consumer computers used tape cassettes to store programs and data. Sinclair was a computer that used this medium.
Reference:

http://oldcomputers.net/zx81.html

Peer comment(s):
agree Sabine Akabayov, PhD
41 mins
agree Kcda : True C64 and many other computers of that era as well. By now I think the word media is more commonly used instead of "medium". Evolving from cassete "medium" towards floppy/cd/dvd/HD-Blue ray - media.
2 hrs
agree Erik Freitag : Ah, I loved my ZX Spectrum!
3 hrs
agree shasas : My ancient Atari 800XL is still alive - "Rescue on Fractalus", anybody? :)
4 hrs
agree Steffen Walter
6 hrs
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