My gran used tapes as she's nearly blind, and has them sent to her by a chairty that do speaking books. CD's now
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For the younger generation what do you do with these?
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My cupboard drawer.
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Anyone else discover that when making mix tapes, if you wound the tape back quarter of a turn with your finger, the tracks merged seamlessly?
Used to do that with all my John Peel compilations.And Minidisc is (ok, was) so much better than MP3. Don't need a bloody computer for a start.
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CountZero - Member
My '51 Skoda actually had a radio with a tape deck and a multidisc CD.My Sis has an 05 Polo. The tight wads at VW have gifted it with a tape deck! In 2005!! HA HA!
Yeah - the cheapest cassettes to buy were TDK D90's I reckon.
I used to buy some 'Thats' something or others from Richer Sounds.I had a Panasonic Walkman that went through hell & high water with me, but kept on going. It think it only took one AA battery though, so FF/RW was strictly out.
I think a Bic pen works as well as a pencil for winding duties....Still got an Aiwa ADF-450 tape deck that was quite well regarded in it's day. Never use it though, although I did have some recordings off it (CD to tape) that sounded better than some original cassette recordings.
A mate of mine has some albums on CD that I had on cassette & we re-recorded my cassettes as the original sound quality was cak.Posted 7 months ago # -
Wonder how many lofts are full of cassettes. We've got hundreds of the things and a 1980's mini hifi to play them on. Doubt we'll ever use them again but don't want to part with them.
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Still a user of Mini Discs here
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at one stage i had two minidisk players for some reason (probably cos i'm a PIMP) but on the last day of school, the day traditionally reserved for playing pranks on the teachers... i nabbed a giant bottle of vinegar from the lunch hall and hid it in my bag with the plan of emptying it into our science teachers coffee in 2 lessons time.
opened my bag to find a 2 completely brown and rusty minidisk players where the vinegar bottle had leaked all over my bag. serves me right!
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My desk, just now
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I have a cassette player in my van. And we still have one in the studio as we get some stuff from record labels for remastering from cassette!
Also use a mini-disc machine on a regular basis.Posted 7 months ago # -
Can you remember driving up the M1 in the 90's and seeing all those tape streamers in the central reservation??
Oh how we laughed when tapes got chewed up in the players, then subsiquently thrown out of the car windows..
"Black Box" anyone?
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TDK SA and SF 90s were our tape of choice we used to hire cds from the library and tape them .
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Me too! </aol>
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The TDK D90 five-pack. The classic couldn't-think-what-to-get-him present. Always welcome. Except with my older cousin who once threw a hissy fit because he insisted on AD90 for his shite 80s hair metal.
I still can't listen to I Am The Resurrection without making a mental note of exactly where in the song the 45 minutes of tape would end.
I have well over 1000 tapes in sneaker boxes in the loft. Won't ever play them again, but won't ever part with them either.
Minidiscs were great, especially once you discovered how much you could fit on a disc if you played about with the settings, then had a weekly lending cycle on the go with your friend who worked in Tower Records and brought home pretty much every classical and jazz CD they had (because they were allowed to do that).
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Reminds me of the many songs i recorded off vinyl which had a tiny scartch or other foible, but you'd heard it so many times like that, such that when you heard it properly, it sounded wrong. In fact i even used to sing in the scratch.
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OMG pete murphy advertising Maxell tapes I'd forgotten that!
songs like this would have no meaning now either
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Who is it that's the first person that makes these things up???
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Oink?
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one of these
in one of these
I'd still like one now...
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