1994 Mazda MX-5 Miata: Logic Control? Highly Unlikely.

"Anti-Theft System" aka it's a cassette deck

Fascinating.

It says "dolby system"-- a star cluster in the Mazda Nebula that is shaped like belly to belly "Ds"

To activate the "dolby system" you insert a cassette and you are immediately transported back in time.

I always wondered what that meant -- logic control -- with respect to tape decks. I should have asked Spock.

Smiley Spock scares me.

@mtakahashi

Agreed.

I thought that last one was a picture of riswick.

Skeptical Spock is wearing a bit too much make up for my comfort.

Could it mean there are computer chips used to control cassette playback instead of old-fashioned pulleys?

But I'm not Spock.

There are all sorts of cool controls on this car:

1. You can eject the warp core (always the last resort, but always does the job)
2. You can choose the warp level, between 1 and 6
3. You can transform the miata into an armored personnel carrier
4. You can scan the Dolby system (with tachion particles, most likely)
5. You can tune the frequency of your phasers so the Borg can't adjust

That's all I've got.

"Full Logic" means the tape transport controls are electronic rather than mechanical, and will not permit you to screw up the tape or mechanism by, e. g., hitting the FF and REW, or PLAY and EJECT buttons, simultaneously.

In the previous post about the head unit time machine I forgot one of the most important observations--this is a standard-sized (probably DIN) unit which is easily replaceable by a superior aftermarket head unit with modern features at modest cost, without needing an installation kit from Metra to fill the arbitrarily-shaped hole the interior designers came up with and which costs as much as the head unit because the attached climate control circuitry had to be reverse-engineered (which was the case with the first-gen Mazda6).

bc1960 has it right, but "Full Logic" also means it will play both sides of the tape without you removing the tape to flip it over, and that FF means fast forward and REV means reverse even when playing side B. Early and or cheaper reversing decks (such as the Delco in a 1993 LeSabre) had > buttons, and you had to remember which way the tape was moving to know which to push to skip or replay a song. >> would be fast forward on side A but it would be rewind on side B.

+1 bc1960 on the easily upgraded head unit. The modern hard to nearly impossible to upgrade ones suck.

Doesn't have the ultra-cool early '90's feature - Replay that would rewind and replay a song automatically.

Anyone know the first top 40 album released exclusively on cassette tape (ie, no vinyl lp)?

If I remember how it worked on my '88 MX-6, I think that the APC function is the same thing as replay.

""Full Logic" also means it will play both sides of the tape without you removing the tape to flip it over"

That feature is actually called auto-reverse. Many high-end (home) decks of the day purposely didn't include auto-reverse, as to do so without moving the tape requires moving the heads that read the tape, which then makes them far more subject to getting misaligned.

The other day I was talking to a young colleague who had never watched "Back to the Future"!! How is that for a sign that I'm getting old!

And now this! People speculating about the names and functions of tape deck buttons!!

Fram Miata.net:

Examples of uses with APC set:
o If you like the song you just heard and want to hear it again, just press "FR" once to have that song start again at its beginning automatically after the cassette tape fast-rewinds to that point.

o If you don't like the song you're listening to and don't want to hear any more of it, just press "FF" once to instantly end hearing it and to automatically hear the beginning of the next song recorded on the cassette tape after the cassette tape fast-winds to that point.

That Miata radio's APC function appears to be one that's under-used because there's few who understand what it does and how to operate it.