wanna feel old

[Particle Man]

Originally Posted by askmrjesus

Well......

You looked at the liner. If the first song on side one was, "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", but when you put the tape in, it played, "Eleanor Rigby", you fucked it up.

JC

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by Particle Man

it was in the instruction manual for the player.

I had one of the first Sony Walkman models with the digital tuning and the 6 memory buttons. I rarely used the casette because it ate batteries like crazy.

I used that thing for probably about 15 years and I still have it in a box in the garage... the corners are all worn off and such but it still works like a charm... went through headphones like water though

That's the truth! I got one on my way home on leave in '83 (bus ride from El Paso, Tx to Grand Rapids, Mi.... I think a set of batteries were good for MAYBE 6 tapes? Hey, did yours have auto reverse? I thought that was the very APEX of technology at the time, when I got a Nakamichi cassette player. The tape would come out on a tray, flip over and go back in!

[Particle Man]

Originally Posted by TIGGER

That's the truth! I got one on my way home on leave in '83 (bus ride from El Paso, Tx to Grand Rapids, Mi.... I think a set of batteries were good for MAYBE 6 tapes? Hey, did yours have auto reverse? I thought that was the very APEX of technology at the time, when I got a Nakamichi cassette player. The tape would come out on a tray, flip over and go back in!

it does indeed have auto reverse... there is a switch on the side that would automatically flip from side one to side two that you could (get this) MANUALLY flip to switch sides yourself! At the time it was freakin' cutting edge

[BobTheBiker]

WOW. I still remember my old walkman, and probably a dozen other cassette players I had throughout middle school to drone out the idiots on teh bus. only 21 and I already feel DAMN old. hell I think I still have some WASP and Alice Cooper tapes somewhere, along with some metal church.

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by BobTheBiker

WOW. I still remember my old walkman, and probably a dozen other cassette players I had throughout middle school to drone out the idiots on teh bus. only 21 and I already feel DAMN old. hell I think I still have some WASP and Alice Cooper tapes somewhere, along with some metal church.

You're only 21, yet you listened to Alice Cooper ?

[HurricaneHeather]

Originally Posted by Gas Man

Seriously Heather? How old are you?

I'm 26. If you add it all up, tapes were really only mainstream when I was a kid.

[HurricaneHeather]

Originally Posted by Particle Man

it was in the instruction manual for the player.

I definitely never owned a new walkman or any tape player, so I can guarantee I never had a manual. Not that I would have read it if I had one.

Originally Posted by askmrjesus

Well......

You looked at the liner. If the first song on side one was, "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", but when you put the tape in, it played, "Eleanor Rigby", you fucked it up.

JC

That was my method, trial and error.

Everytime I would try it out then try my best to remember which way it was....I always forgot.

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

You're only 21, yet you listened to Alice Cooper ?

Dude when I was in HS in the early 80s we went through a phase where we listened to the Doors, the Who, the Beatles, etc.

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by TIGGER

Dude when I was in HS in the early 80s we went through a phase where we listened to the Doors, the Who, the Beatles, etc.

Well yeah, seeing as how the Who and the Doors "heyday" was only like 5 years prior to that. Shit, in the early 80's those 2 bands still accounted for almost half of what the radio was playing.......And the other half of the airtime was devoted to Bob Segar, Journey, Styx, Rush, Foreigner, Joan Jett, and Loverboy....

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by Gas Man

That one ROCKS! I got one in my garage. I've had it for 20 yrs.

That looks like a late 80's model........I'm partial to the early 80's & late 70's......This JVC here is exactly 30 yrs old. Check out the volume slide, it's like the Star Trek transporter machine, lol

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