Good lord we are all old on this forum. And sarcastic, and twisted!
My kind of people! Giddie up!
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My kind of people! Giddie up!
Columbia House. 10 CDs for a penny!
Wow-now you are showing age. I completely forgot they used to do that-quite a few CDs because of them. That said I was excited our used beetle we picked up has a CD player in it. Next to no glove box to store CDs but I’ll figure it out eventually
This is headed south in a hurry. Whose gonna throw out the previous generation which was so fondly used in many a Scout?CDs - what about cassettes?
I owned exactly one 8-track and when it made me flip in the middle of a song I decided that tech was not for me...
Oh I had an 8-track in my room as a teenager. I had Blondie albums. Ha!
And you never pay and the account is eventually sent to collections and that is how your sister establishes her bad credit at age 14.
Gen Z has apparently embraced cassettes like millennials embraced vinyl. Weirdoes. They haven’t had them eaten by a bad Walkman yet.CDs - what about cassettes?
yep - had that happen...
Maybe I should have bought Sony instead of Panasonic!
Or perhaps a Sanyo! That there was some quality electronics.
And keep your number 2 pencil handy for rewind or re-spooling depending on how bad the situation gets
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Dad had a 4-track tape player installed in his ‘62. The longer the tape, the bigger the cassette.
I have a factory 8 track player in my 1974 AMC Javelin. It still works, but sounds terrible as the volume knob potentiometer is full of dust, as was the case with that vintage of audio equipment. You have to turn the volume knob up and down several times to find the spot where it decides it will make contact that day. Lots of crackling static and the blown speakers don't help the sound quality either.
When I bought the car in the early 2000s, I scoured tag sales and found a bunch of 8 track tapes to play in the car.
A couple years ago, I took it to a car show and my two older daughters who were 16 and 13 at the time got their introduction to 8 tracks on that ride. When we got to the venue, there was a sign saying the show had been canceled due to the threat of rain. The venue was a farm on the MA/NY border, so we decided to cruise down Rt 22 and stopped at a Stewart's Shop for lunch, then got ice cream on our way home, all while blasting music from the 8 tracks. My daughters loved it and still talk about it to this day.
When I bought the car in the early 2000s, I scoured tag sales and found a bunch of 8 track tapes to play in the car.
A couple years ago, I took it to a car show and my two older daughters who were 16 and 13 at the time got their introduction to 8 tracks on that ride. When we got to the venue, there was a sign saying the show had been canceled due to the threat of rain. The venue was a farm on the MA/NY border, so we decided to cruise down Rt 22 and stopped at a Stewart's Shop for lunch, then got ice cream on our way home, all while blasting music from the 8 tracks. My daughters loved it and still talk about it to this day.
I've had very good luck with DeoxIT on old potentiometer knobs. Buttery smooth with no static afterwards.
https://caig.com/clean-potentiometer-switch-deoxit-d5/
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