'Remember when' or 'these kids today' nostalgia thread for old fogies like me

[Beer can]

I still remember the big reel to reel we had.

What is that? never saw or heard of one. Reel to reel, like the old movies?

 

[Alaskan]

Achem.....

"To know me is to love me...

I must be one h of a guy

Oh Lord it's hard to be humble..."

 

[Alaskan]

What is that? never saw or heard of one. Reel to reel, like the old movies?

Yeah...but a tape player....

 

[Alaskan]

Like this one

 

[Beer can]

When I first saw the cassette tape I was going to mention 8-tracks. Oh yea, the big ker-clunk in the middle of a song.
my first car had a cassette player but dad's at the time had an 8-track.

I still have boxes and boxes of albums and records. Have an old phonograph to play them on too.

IMHO the 8track was better than the cassette. 8track was continuous play, one wheel, just kept going. Cassette would stop and play other side so ok, and smaller, but, never saw any 8track tapes go to crap, cassettes had a limited life span, why we saw them up and down the road, people got mad and threw them out the window Lol!

 

[Beer can]

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Like this one

Your older than I thought!

 

[Alaskan]

You made me curious about its history...they started out in 1920s...but were not good quality until after WW2..

At that point they had the best quality. "By writing out the same audio signal across more tape, reel-to-reel systems offer much higher fidelity, at the cost of much larger tapes. In spite of the larger tapes, less convenient use and generally higher cost media, reel-to-reel systems remained popular in audiophile settings into the 1980s."(from wiki)

 

[Alaskan]

Yep....my dad used one as his dictaphone, and then we had a big nice one for music.

 

[N F C]

Anyone else remember these?

(btw...that is NOT a selfie)

 

[Beer can]

Anyone else remember these?
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(btw...that is NOT a selfie)

Only from tv. Heck we didn't get cell phones till about five yrs ago, and still don't have cell service at our house.