A late '80s memory: My high school newspaper staff held a white elephant gift exchange. A look of disappointment came over a fellow staffer's face when he chose my gift randomly. After unwrapping it, he announced, "A normal bias blank cassette tape. Aw, it couldn't be chrome?"
No, it couldn't have been. I knew that high bias tapes had greater noise reduction and sounded truer to life than normal bias ones. As a high school student with only so much cash to spend on white elephant gifts, however, I wasn't going to splurge on a high bias cassette--especially when I didn't know who would receive it.
