Component hifi systems were the norm in this time period. It would have been a trivial matter to record from vinyl to a cheap audio cassette on any basic system AV system. They even made cheap vinyl/tape decks as well.
Compact cassettes were used as a typical method for dictation for this time period. They were quite inexpensive even in the 1960s, let alone the 80s. I used to have a monaural battery tape recorder as a child with plenty of blank tapes in 1981, and was poor. This was not expensive stuff, less than a dollar per tape.
Further the group of people that would be in the market for a C64 or earlier tended to be more tech savvy then when PCs had mass adoption.
I think the “challenge” here is much more finding the track after the run out, especially with an auto return deck. Also while there are notable counter examples, Christian rock listeners is not exactly overlapping with the tech crowd in a large way. This was an obscure album.
If this had existed on a metal album it would have been found day 1, I guarantee it.
As to effort. Seems pretty simple. Record program to tape... put on master. This wasn’t any great feat of engineering.
Compact cassettes were used as a typical method for dictation for this time period. They were quite inexpensive even in the 1960s, let alone the 80s. I used to have a monaural battery tape recorder as a child with plenty of blank tapes in 1981, and was poor. This was not expensive stuff, less than a dollar per tape.
Further the group of people that would be in the market for a C64 or earlier tended to be more tech savvy then when PCs had mass adoption.
I think the “challenge” here is much more finding the track after the run out, especially with an auto return deck. Also while there are notable counter examples, Christian rock listeners is not exactly overlapping with the tech crowd in a large way. This was an obscure album.
If this had existed on a metal album it would have been found day 1, I guarantee it.
As to effort. Seems pretty simple. Record program to tape... put on master. This wasn’t any great feat of engineering.