A Retro HiFi video - featuring the Panasonic RS-296US - a very unusual cassette tape player from the early 1970s.

The reference to a 'desktop iPod' in the title whilst smacking of click-bait also has a bit of truth about it. The 2.5 days of music that Panasonic quoted on their advert is roughly similar in play time to the 1000 songs in your pocket that the first 5GB Apple iPod boasted in 2001.

In 1972 you could load this 40lb machine up with 20 cassettes containing your choice of music and listen to hundreds of tracks over many hours without repetition. Effectively it's a giant playlist that lets you choose the section you want to jump to from 20 possibilities.

The 2.5 days of play time that Panasonic boasted in their advert, equates to 60 hours which would require 20x 180-min cassettes. Whilst these tapes did exist at one point, 180-minute lengths were also