I have had the discussion with my teacher a couple of times about 8 Track tapes. He's told me that you can rewind 8 Tracks. I've told him each time that we've had this discussion that an 8 Track tape is a continuous loop and cannot be rewound. I have a Panasonic TNT Model 8 Track Player and if the 8 Track Tapes were able to be rewound, wouldn't the player have a rewind button? I would like to hear what you guys know/think.
You can fast-forward them, sorta, but that's it. The way the tape comes from the centre of the spool prevents rewinding. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-track_tape Your teacher is an idiot.
Impossible the tension is too tight, the tape is pulled up at an angle, to put it pack in you would have to put it at a downward angle for it to even work on a hypothetical basis, in practice however you would run into the problem of the tape stretching after just 1 or 2 turns. The guy is full of it, 8 track was a good format with a terrible mechanical design. I highly doubt that the guy even knows what an 8 track is.
