82161A Digital Cassette with Audio Tapes?

[Paul Berger (Canada)]

(05-24-2015 04:09 AM)Raymond Del Tondo Wrote:  The HP data tapes and the audio tapes from other vendors may also have a different magnetic coercitivity, so even if they'd match physically (which I doubt), audio tapes (what tapes for dictation machines are) will be incompatible to the HP 82161A.

That is true, however at least one member of this forum successfully replaced the media in a HP cartridge with audio tape, but I do not remember what sort of tape he used as there where different audio tape media coating each with a different coercitivity.