The iPod of its day.

[Onkel Neal]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8117619.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8117619.stm)
Giving up my iPod for a Walkman

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45984000/jpg/_45984325_scott_466.jpg



It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape.

Kids!! :har:


Yes, I still have my old cassette player and the foamish type of belt bag I used in the '80s and '90s. I got pretty good at changing cassettes while riding my Suzuki...only lost a few :) A cassette could hold 18 songs, now my iPod shuffle holds 800 !

[AVGWarhawk]

Yes, the simpler days. The biggest question was to use TDK or Maxell cassettes for recording your music. :03:

[UnderseaLcpl]

Did this kid actually write this article? If so, he's got a lot of potential as a journalist or author. :yeah:

[Task Force]

:rotfl:He couldnt figure out how to work a walkman... eventhough I was born in the 90s... I could figure one out way quicker than that...

[goldorak]

Yes, the simpler days. The biggest question was to use TDK or Maxell cassettes for recording your music. :03:

Ah the good old days when pirating music (copying your friends music on cassette) didn't ruin your life and get you a 2 milion dollar fine.
I'd say that times have worsened indeed.
:shucks:

[Task Force]

And I just noticed neal changed his avatar... again... lol...

First it was the cowboy, then the green baby, then the cowboy again, then something else now... err a dude with a flag...:rotfl:

[AVGWarhawk]

Ah the good old days when pirating music (copying your friends music on cassette) didn't ruin your life and get you a 2 milion dollar fine.
I'd say that times have worsened indeed.
:shucks:


Yeah and we used a thing called records that when scratched really ticked you off. From these records the music was recorded.

[GoldenRivet]

Did this kid actually write this article? If so, he's got a lot of potential as a journalist or author. :yeah:

agreed!

well done.

i remember the old casette walkman days.

got one collected up at school once (but i got it back)

i remember it was such a big deal when the CD versions began to come out... i think they are still on sale at wal-mart... for about $3:haha:

[GoldenRivet]

Yeah and we used a thing called records that when scratched really ticked you off. From these records the music was recorded.

i dont care what sound device you use... nothing beats the sound of an old vinyl.:up:

[AVGWarhawk]

i dont care what sound device you use... nothing beats the sound of an old vinyl.:up:

A lot of people say that. The turn-table or record player as I called them was like gold.

[goldorak]

i dont care what sound device you use... nothing beats the sound of an old vinyl.:up:

Nothing except a sacd.
I prefer Vinyl, even seeing at my local mall new pristine Vinyl records being on sale again is very cool. Its tempting to start collecting again, but they release only pop/rock music. I want classical, need to update my Von Karajan's Beethoven Symphonies Vinyl Boxset. :DL

[Oberon]

One thing I don't miss about walkmans is your music suddenly going slow mo and then stopping, and then when you open it up, the walkman has eaten the tape :haha: Funny now, infuriating as hell back then.
Then the CD walkman! Great unless you were jogging then it was jump, jump, jump, jump, disc. Then some clever chap gave us the anti-skip function for joggers and those who travel on buses with useless suspension to get to school ;)
Now it's music on your mobile and Ipods with 800 songs. I'm just 25 and I feel old whenever I think about technology :haha:
But Vinyl, man, just hearing a vinyl record with the hiss and occasional crackle, takes me back :up:

Oh, and Neal...I LOVE YOUR SIGNATURE!!! :yeah::yeah::yeah::yeah::yeah:

[SteamWake]

LOL my wife got me some ipod knock off for christmass.

It took me like a day to figure out how to get music onto it let alone listen to it and organize it. :rotfl:

[AVGWarhawk]

LOL my wife got me some ipod knock off for christmass.



I got one also. It is called, 'The Tightwad" instead of 'Ipod'. :har:

[SteamWake]

Mine was actually pretty damn cool it even has video .. that is if you can see video on a 1.5" screen :rotfl:

But it stores quite a bit of music and has shuffle and all that fancy crap. Honestly I dont even know where it is right now.

I ended up putting books on it and giving it back to the wife :salute:

[Torplexed]

Hehheh! I still remember the befuddled look on my 15-year old niece's face when she was first confronted by a rotary dial phone. "The wheel on the front only turns one way?"

http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/rotary_dial_mobile.jpg

[VipertheSniper]

One cool thing about old analogue phones was, that you could, if the rotary dial was blocked for whatever reason, still dial by tapping the hook(s) the transceiver rested on, a bit tedious but it worked.

[LiveGoat]

One thing I will certainly NOT miss is portable cd players, the retarded brother to the cassette walkman. They seemed programmed to fail within 2 weeks of purchase. Although my foray into digital wasn't without problems. I went through 2 zen micros before getting my beloved turd brown 1st gen Zune, which is still working flawlessly to this day.

[Task Force]

I perfer cds... they dont get deleted accidently....:yep:

[Blacklight]

I remember when the reccord compaines were trying to sue the cassette reccorder companies because they didn't want people sharing copies of their music. It was the same thing that's going on now, except now, it's a LOT worse. They lost that series of cases back then. I believe the fallout of one of those cases was the rule that you are entitled to make a single backup copy for yourself or something like that.
I just remember the reccord companies freaking out about those infernal tape reccorders with their "Reccord" buttons ! They wanted the reccording function removed from them.

If the reccord companies had had their way back then, the 80's mix tape would never have existed.

[Onkel Neal]

Oh, and Neal...I LOVE YOUR SIGNATURE!!! :yeah::yeah::yeah::yeah::yeah:

Thanks! :salute:


Hehheh! I still remember the befuddled look on my 15-year old niece's face when she was first confronted by a rotary dial phone. "The wheel on the front only turns one way?"

http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/rotary_dial_mobile.jpg


Haha, I showed this to my 14 year old, she said "you hold the number thing and swing it around." I asked "then what?" She said you do it again.

I said, "you know when you pull your finger out, it goes back on its own?"

She said, "Oh, I didn't know that." :D

[SUBMAN1]

I might still be able to produce a walkman. Probably a weather proof yellow variety.

-S

[Rilder]

Bah stop living in this past, technology is meant to be used.

(This coming from a guy who loves his history. :88))