From the article:
The beige-coloured machine was popular in the 1980s but is now considered an antique, though some electronic dance acts still use it [...]
I can picture it - the police doing an inventory, and someone comes across an old BASF C60 tape. "Hey, he's got a bootleg of the Great Gianna Sisters - I haven't heard them for years! Anybody got a tape player in their car?"
