Remember when tapes were the new technology?

[Maestro]

I found one of my hold Spin magazines when my parents finally moved from the old family home last May. I thought this ad was nostalgic.

[haydukelives]

1. I remember

back in the day.
cassettes where the bomb.

[qnr]

2. Sure do. n/t

[Redstone]

3. Christ, I remember when EVERYTHING was "new technology."

That's how old I am.

The town where I grew up got dial phones in 1972.

Not that I was there to see it, but they did.

Redstone

[Rhiannon12866]

7. Yikes! And I thought I lived in a small town, LOL!

I remember when we got dial phones, as well, but it was a few years before that... :D

And there is nothing wrong with your post.:shrug:

Rhiannon:hi:

[reyd reid reed]

4. I can remember when people thought that the small, portable

reel-to-reel sets were the best thing since radio...I've still got one of 'em somewhere.

[Maestro]

10. I have a reel to reel in an old Magnavox cabinet that

I inherited from my grandmother when she passed. It also has a record player in the cabinet too. It works great. I still use it to listen to some records. Big Band bands never sounded so good. ;)

[electricmonk]

5. I went looking for a tape deck a couple weeks ago

I have tons of tapes and want to transfer them to cd before they all rot. I went to the large chain stores and not a decent cassette deck to be had. At the specialty audio stores they had some high end ones that were way too pricy for what I need. Guess I'll have to hit ebay or watch the flea markets and thrift stores.

[Maestro]

11. Truth be told

I never much liked tapes. The thing that always got me was having to search for the beginning of songs. I much prefered just lifting up a needle and going to whereever I wanted to. I don't think I ever purchased more than 10 tapes during the heyday of tapes; all vinyl.

[idgiehkt]

16. stupid question

how do you move something from a cassette to a CD? Do you record it onto your computer? I'm not technologically oriented, so I know this question is probably dumb.

[Kali]

20. there are no stupid questions...

that I haven't already asked!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=242&topic_id=8296


I think there must be a way to directly record onto a cd recorder at your stereo as well, but I had to go this route as I didn't want to buy a new cd device for the stereo...mine is a 20 player that does not record and it hasn't died yet....

[idgiehkt]

24. thanks for that,

good to know it's possible after all.

[Kali]

18. oh man, I know what you mean!

my poor old stand-by

[LTR]

23. Kinda like buying a turntable

Very rare these days, and the ones that are out there are pretty expensive.

Although I did see a USA Today feature on cool tech stuff to send the kids off to college with. One of the items was a $100 turntable

:wtf:

Kids these days don't even know what a vinyl record is.

[Kali]

25. Compared to 10 or 15 years ago turntables are easy to find now

they are now instruments rather than playback devices, but us old geezers can still play RECORDS on them!

[B3Nut]

29. Loads of new 'tables: www.needledoctor.com

Also most independent audio shops carry nice mid-priced Pro-Ject or Music Hall 'tables. And a "sleeper" in audiophile circles is the legendary DJ table, the Technics SL1200MkII and its offspring...solid LP players and will outlast the purchaser.

Todd in Beerbratistan

[trackfan]

6. They stop working almost as quickly as CDs do.

[Deja Q]

8. Whoa, dude! Gag me with a thpoon over those late-70s hairdos!

:wow:

:rofl:

I'm also going to do more of what he is doing...

[deucemagnet]

15. You mean trying to hurt your back?

Just looking at him makes the muscles in my lower back ache. :scared:

[Broken_Hero]

9. Hells Bells I do!

Use to have about 300 cassette's before cds hit the mainstream. I use to love making mix tapes and stuff...:)

[Maestro]

12. That is what I used them for as well.

I bought vinyl and then made mix tapes.

[nuxvomica]

13. I remember asking for a stereo for my birthday

I told my folks I definitely wanted one with the built-in radio and cassette recorder so I could copy (we now say "rip" or "archive") songs and later listen to them on my banana-yellow portable cassette player. Of course they got me one with a built-in 8-track recorder instead, which still sits less than four feet from where I'm sitting now. I was not happy cuz I had it on good authority that 8-tracks were on the way out. :D

[astral]

17. Yeah, 8-tracks were on the way out because

they'd play about 5 or 10 times before they started stretching out and not working anymore. I still have some vinyl and a record player with a needle that works. My heart aches for all the boxes of records I had to leave behind over the years, though. They're not re-doing EVERYTHING on CD!

[sarge43]

14. I remember when LPs were the latest thing n/t

[calico1]

19. Hell....

I remember when 8 tracks were considered cool! But then, in those days I also thought I was cool in my platform shoes!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Maestro]

21. I actually bought two 8 track albums

One was Billy Joel's Glass Houses. The other was Led Zeppelin's IV album. I hated them right from the start because I couldn't easily find the song I wanted to play. Also, they were damn bulky, but you could take them in the car.

[calico1]

22. 8 tracks sucked.

After you played them a few times they almost always got all tangled up. Or get eaten by the 8 track player. Fortunately I had a brother in law at the time who was very handy and good at fixing them. By comparison the cassette tapes that replaced them seemed light years advanced. LOL.

[tuvor]

26. Not quite--they've been around for a long time.

Accordign to Wikipedia, "The compact audio cassette medium for audio storage was introduced in Europe by Philips in 1963, and in the U.S. in 1964, under the trademark name Compact Cassette."

Cassettes have had a pretty good run (30+ years!) for a recorded-music medium.

[Maestro]

27. You are correct

but vinyl still ruled in that time period and really on into the 80s.

[Deep13]

28. And they were like $5 each in the '80s.

That's for the blank ones.