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I still have an old stereo that can record 8-Track. It's an old Sears compact unit from around 1981 with an AM/FM cassette, 8-Track with a BSR type turntable on top. I came with seperate speakers. I haven't used it in years, and it's beat all to hell. The door is missing from the cassette and wires are hanging out of the back but It still worked somewhat the last time I plugged it in. I seldom recorded 8-tracks but I did dub a few from cassettes I borrowed from friends since I didn't have a dual cassette deck at the time and could only dub cassette to 8-track or vise versa. When 8-tracks started to disappear around 1982, stores would sometimes them for as little as $25 cents in the cut-out bin. I bought a stack of 8-tracks from K-mart that way and dubbed them over to cassette so I could play them in the car. Even in the 70's when everyone had 8-track, I knew they were crap even at 12 years old. I would often have these arguments with people over which was better. An argument I eventually won.