Sony, 1973

[neuralclone.livejournal.com]

"But Grandad, I wanted an iPod!"




From National Geographic, April 1973

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[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!