I didn’t need this test to know I’m aged. BTW, I do know what function that tape restores.
I remember those along with punch card machines.
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…& when floppy discs arrived the remaining, vast, stocks of punch cards were transformed into notepads…
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‘Portafilter sold separately’.
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Actually a small balled up lump of paper or cardboard was the poor man’s version that I’ve seen and used more than once. It prevents recording to secure the current content from deletion.
What it doesn’t prevent: As a curious 12-year-old playing with speaker magnets over the tape heads whilst playing I made 3 permanent 2 second gaps in my favourite tape 
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I had a horrible experience once with a visiting child , the BRAT sat on the floor pulling LP’s out of my beautifully alphabetically ordered collection of vinyl, stared at the picture on the cover and put them back ANYWHERE he fancied
Luckily I spotted it early but a randomized collection ???
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I feel for you, but I can beat it! I had a black lab puppy that pulled albums from the shelf, ripped the covers off and scrabbled on the grooves!!
Sadly, I cared for the dog more than my record collection, and so I sold the remaining seven thousand and starting buying CD’s.
OUCH , my beagle pup was a destructive one , she went hunting for a biscuit that she thought was inside my favourite chair, foam everywhere, she was a great digger
There could be a whole thread what miscreant dogs stories , I was foolish enough to have 2 beagles at the same time I have a boxful WOW 
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Saw this and thought of our friends in Prog and Proud!
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Swap Mulder and Scully’s faces and you’ve got an album cover for an 80’s synth pop band
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Sci-Fi and music and comedy. What’s not to like!
