Sony, 1973

[neuralclone.livejournal.com]

"But Grandad, I wanted an iPod!"




From National Geographic, April 1973

Comments

[misstia]

i STILL want one of these!!!

[sceneasfuck.livejournal.com]

hahahaha my thoughts exactly

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

Ditto!

[pony-rocks.livejournal.com]

Mehehe, I have it. :D

[my-hypocrisy.livejournal.com]

That makes me sad. I wish that things were still designed and built to last, rather than to be replaced in a year or two.

[yourwordspoetic.livejournal.com]

Me too! I've spent too much money on warranties.

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, now they just record choppy video with their phone, throw on some credits in Movie Maker, and autotune the soundtrack. Much better.

[chicklet-girl.livejournal.com]

"But Grandad, I wanted an iPod!"

"Nope! You'll cart this around, and you'll like it!"

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

What in the world would have made them think people would still be using those three generations later? ...Unless they meant that in the sense of an antique, which, I mean, I have an antique record player and all, but.

[thejackaolf.livejournal.com]

O.o I would, its most far more durable then modern media recorders.
and yeah i have a record player to. i use it more then my MP3 player. but i still like my phonograph better.

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

The player itself might be pretty durable but magnetic tape isn't. And it's certainly lacking in portable convenience...

[gemcitytiffany.livejournal.com]

Your grandson will think it's super cool. Your great grandson will think it's just old and stupid as hell.

As I recently heard:
"Well, we didn't have CDs when I was a kid, we listened to tapes though."

"Tapes... like... the sticky kind??"
*facepalm*

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

Oh no... feeling old...

I had a tape deck in my '99 Beetle, which I retired in late 2008. It also had a six-disc changer, but the first thing I played in the car was a cassette (Big Black's "Songs about F*cking", cued up to Bad Penny).

I made sure that track was also the first in my new car. However that time I was playing it from a direct line plug to my MP3 player.

Meanwhile, I still have a Tandberg reel-to-reel two-track deck. I'm trying to convert an old radio production reel from my college days. I visited my old college recently and explained to some of the kids how we would make ads and IDs using tape desks.

[neuralclone.livejournal.com]

I still have a tape deck in my '97 Starlet - however it only plays cassettes, not reel-to-reel. :-D

[lexixanatos487.livejournal.com]

My car ('95 Escort) still just has a cassette player. Yay for converters!

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Your comment to this made me laugh so hard, and I needed a laugh. I'm just imagining some kid opening the box on his birthday and seeing an antiquated (if kinda cool) tape deck. 'Er...thanks?'

[neuralclone.livejournal.com]

Exactly what I thought when I found the ad!

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

You could just imagine the equivalent now, as you hand over a treasured iPod, kept through the decades, to your grandchildren. They wouldn't even know what an mp3 was...

[neuralclone.livejournal.com]

"Back in 2010 I waited in line twelve hours to get this iPhone!" *EG*
Yes, exactly.

Great ad.

[layelld.livejournal.com]

A Reel to Reel machine! I've never had one but I want one.

I'm into retro tech.

I have a Stylophone, and a Casio VL-1 keyboard. I'm just sorry I gave away my C64 system years ago.

Re: Great ad.

[neuralclone.livejournal.com]

Thanks! If I had a time machine I'd go back and ask your great-grandfather to buy one, just so you could inherit. ;-)

[write-light.livejournal.com]

OMG I haven't laughed so hard in a while.

[donnalee-kiss.livejournal.com]

I just found out the phone I bought for $100 last year is selling for $1 on ebay. The span for obsolescence keeps getting shorter and shorter.