A blast from the past

[Fnaar]

The mini music centre in our kitchen has a tape deck (it's old) and though I got rid of many of my tapes some time ago, I kept a load, and they still occasionally get played chez Fnaar.

 

[marknotgeorge]

My first personal stereo was a Lloytron back in 1984, a great big thing with a strap instead of a belt clip. With it I got Queen's The Works and Musical Youth's debut album (which I remember my aunt buying from Debenhams). After other various cheap ones, I found Aiwa, usually buying them from a stall in the market which sold warranty refurbs.

 

[Fnaar]

Juicy men embalmed her...

 

[Fnaar]

Me ears are alight!

 

[cuberider]

I had one of these ........ I loved it at the time. I also had one in my car.

 

[summerdays]

I had one of these ........ I loved it at the time. I also had one in my car.

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I think Mr Summerdays had one of those too, either he kept hold of it better, or me and it didn't get on as I don't have strong memories of it!

I'm just wondering if I went searching whether I could find these relics of the past.

 

[speccy1]

I`ve got a couple of Awia walkmans up in the loft, not been touched in 20+ years, one was bought by me, the other my grandad gave me. Curious to dig them out to see if they still work now, also up there I have a Sony betamax vcr

 

[Jenkins]

I had one of these ........ I loved it at the time. I also had one in my car.

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I've still got a Sony Walkman mini disc player/recorder in full working order.

 

[Vidor06]

I had one of these ........ I loved it at the time. I also had one in my car.

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I remember buying one of those back in the day and I had that feeling of being at the cutting edge of technology. As I recall that feeling last about two or three weeks.

 

[Salar]

Not necessarily completely out-of-date?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35634008 and http://www.dailydot.com/technology/cassette-tapes-stepp/ ? Hang on to them! Use them!

Not out of date, I've been buying cassettes the past few years,play them on a Technics deck ,I like the analogue sound.

 

[martint235]

I was tidying up the house today, doing a bit of a purge of old electronic parts that had been sitting in a few cupboards gathering dust, and I knew I'd never use some of them again. They included items such as old PC cards and cables, old hifi cables. But one item caught my attention, because it must have been a few decades since I last paid any real attention to it:

It was a Sony Walkman that I'd bought sometime in the mid-80s (I think), and used to use a lot when going on cycling trips around the 'hood when I was in my late teens. Amazingly enough, it still works perfectly, playing AM/FM radio, and even this old Joe Jackson tape I got out to try playing. I still have about 200 or so of these tapes, and was fairly sure I'd never (or very, very rarely) play them again. I inserted the tape, and it plays very nicely.


Remember the days of yore, when all and sundry used to insert cassette tapes into Sony Walkmans, then head outside, listening to the best '80s tracks?

• The tedium of skipping the tracks you liked least, by pressing the fast-forward button, then after a carefully-timed press of the stop button, pressing the play button again to resume playback at the next track?
  
• The annoyance when the cassette tape was a bit worn, and sometimes got twisted and snarled inside the player, so you had to carefully untangle it, then spin one of the tape reels until it was all safely inside the cassette again?
  
• The resignation when the sound from playing the cassette changed to a lower frequency, and you just knew the tape was stretched, and its days of useful playback were numbered?

Ahh, nostalgia... Things were built to last back then (damn, I sounded like my Dad, just then).

Regards,

--- Victor.

P.S. And, yes: I still have a vinyl record player and a colection of records to play, although they also don't get played a great deal these days.

I had the exact same model. Can't remember how much it cost me but it was well over £100. I bought it when I started travelling to London on a fairly regular basis . It was an absolute godsend when I started commuting from Ashford into London in '91.

 

[raleighnut]

I've got both formats currently connected to my HiFi (tape deck is Yamaha and the Minidisc is a Sony) and I've also got my personal Minidisc (in full working order) but the personal cassette player died a while back.
Still listen to stuff recorded on both formats, some of the cassettes were recorded by me 35yrs ago.

 

[Vidor06]

A number of years ago I was doing a clear out of old tapes which were a jumble of mine and Mrs Vidor's. I made a big pile of ones to bin and a smaller pile of ones to keep. The bin pile included old 'mix tapes' that persons unknown to me had made for Mrs V years before. I went ahead and chucked them out. I have never lived it down. Although it has made me wonder who made her the mix tapes all those years ago and why she would want to keep them!

 

[MontyVeda]

I've still got a Sony Walkman mini disc player/recorder in full working order.

Yep, me too... I still listen to MiniDisc on occasion.

 

[skudupnorth]

Still got a tape in my car I thought about going modern but for some reason I like the tapes and the confused look on the kids faces when I have to eject it to play the other side