Originally Posted by
DougRNS
prolly to advance the tape past the leader so it will not miss any of the recording.
I have a bunch of TDK SA90 cassettes. I still can play them too. Going on 40 years old, that is unimaginable. Good thing I recorded them when I was 2.
Nope. That's to get the tape back into the cassette after the player has wrapped the tape around its spindles a few hundred times