Memories of ancient technology

Trollheart · 02-25-2015, 03:38 PM

Following on from my "what was your first computer" thread, who remembers using what is now outdated but at the time was cutting edge tech for listening to music? I recall "metal tapes", very expensive but the quality was incredible for the time....

(This is a cassette audio tape. It may not necessarily be a metal one)

a Walkman of course. Everyone who was anyone (and those of us who were not) had one

and later, even a Minidisc! They could record AND play AND you could shift the tracks around, record over them, label them and so much more. Yeah, they died out pretty quickly.

So, anyone else remember this ancient tech? Anyone use it?

Urban Hat€monger ? · 02-25-2015, 03:41 PM

I remember when I had dial up internet and before I owned an MP3 player when downloading one song would take about half an hour. I would download all the obscure B sides and singles by bands I liked. I would stick a jack into the computer and would manually record them onto mini disc as they played.

Thank God I only had to do that for a year or so.

Chula Vista · 02-25-2015, 03:42 PM

How I use to learn songs on the guitar. The penny taped to the stylus makes the arm easier to control for pinpointing parts of the record.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 02-25-2015, 03:44 PM

I just found the first record Trollheart ever bought.

FRED HALE SR. · 02-25-2015, 03:45 PM

I heard there was some old geezers posting in here. Oh wait.

Google Image Result for http://www.retrocom.com/images/Laf_comstat25A.jpg

RoxyRollah · 02-25-2015, 03:47 PM

Over the hill banter.

FRED HALE SR. · 02-25-2015, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by RoxyRollah

Over the hill banter.

Someday this technology will save the world when everything crashes. People will actually have to communicate once again.

Trollheart · 02-25-2015, 03:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chula Vista

How I use to learn songs on the guitar. The penny taped to the stylus makes the arm easier to control for pinpointing parts of the record.

This was also a trick for fixing scratches, if you recall?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?

I just found the first record Trollheart ever bought.

No way man! That technology was way ahead of anything I could afford! The organ grinder was where I hung out --- damn monkey!

Urban Hat€monger ? · 02-25-2015, 03:58 PM

Too big to put in any pocket
Even something as harmless as walking would make it jolt and lose it's place.
and who the hell carts a load of CDs around on their person?

Trollheart · 02-25-2015, 04:00 PM

Oh man, I did that. Remember the CD wallets you could get, fit about ten CDs? The hassle of trying to change it when out, on the bus, wherever. It was this that pushed me into minidisc land. I still thought they were great, just never given the chance to develop into something really big.Course, the idea of being able to see the titles scroll across the screen was sooooo cool!

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Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,992	Memories of ancient technology Following on from my "what was your first computer" thread, who remembers using what is now outdated but at the time was cutting edge tech for listening to music? I recall "metal tapes", very expensive but the quality was incredible for the time.... (This is a cassette audio tape. It may not necessarily be a metal one) a Walkman of course. Everyone who was anyone (and those of us who were not) had one and later, even a Minidisc! They could record AND play AND you could shift the tracks around, record over them, label them and so much more. Yeah, they died out pretty quickly. So, anyone else remember this ancient tech? Anyone use it? __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

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Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	I remember when I had dial up internet and before I owned an MP3 player when downloading one song would take about half an hour. I would download all the obscure B sides and singles by bands I liked. I would stick a jack into the computer and would manually record them onto mini disc as they played. Thank God I only had to do that for a year or so. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

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Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	How I use to learn songs on the guitar. The penny taped to the stylus makes the arm easier to control for pinpointing parts of the record. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

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Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	I just found the first record Trollheart ever bought. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

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FRED HALE SR. Neo-Maxi-Zoom-Dweebie Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: So-Cal Posts: 3,752	I heard there was some old geezers posting in here. Oh wait. Google Image Result for http://www.retrocom.com/images/Laf_comstat25A.jpg __________________ " I slashed and burned thru my 15 minutes of fame."

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Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	Too big to put in any pocket Even something as harmless as walking would make it jolt and lose it's place. and who the hell carts a load of CDs around on their person? __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

02-25-2015, 04:00 PM	#10 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,992	Oh man, I did that. Remember the CD wallets you could get, fit about ten CDs? The hassle of trying to change it when out, on the bus, wherever. It was this that pushed me into minidisc land. I still thought they were great, just never given the chance to develop into something really big.Course, the idea of being able to see the titles scroll across the screen was sooooo cool! __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018