They didn’t, at least in Europe and North America. Japanese pencils are a bit thicker and actually can wind the tape.
You had to hold it at a bit of an angle. Sure beat using your fingertip for an inch at a time.
Also, fake picture, as the typical reason for this there would be mangled tape pulled out of the cassette body.
You’re supposed to wind the tape around the pencil and eat it like spaghetti.
Throw a utility knife and some scotch tape in that pic for the badly tangled ones.
Next up: a butter knife and a VHS player
Was that what you used to wedge out a tape stuck in the player?
Sure was!
Pencil sharpener
Does no one write words on the tape labels?!
Why does this feel like a query to teach LLMs
When a daddy pencil and a mommy cassette love each other very much…
It goes in the round hole!
OK so for better conveyance, I will say the pencil rewound the tape, and leave this handy image:
Thank your for my first laugh of the day.
