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I'm showing my age, but the first thing I thought of when reading the headline was the Commodore Datasette.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette

Datasette was named after that disk drive, because the first code I ever wrote was saved to a floppy disk using a C64.

I had also assumed it would be a good unique name that I could subscribe to search results for... only to find that the Commodore 64 vintage computing community is still way more active than I had ever imagined!

I immediately thought of the musician Datassette - proponent of the micro-genre Business Funk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgWa7NoJGWc

I did, too :)

For those that don't know: Datasette is the author/curator of https://musicforprogramming.net

...and he contributed music and SFX to Space Rubbish, an awesome bullet-hell Asteroids clone. https://vimeo.com/18472447

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