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WCDT strips 3676 to 3680 (12th to 16th February 2018)

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Case:

--- Quote from: Castlerook on 11 Feb 2018, 20:46 ---Hmmm, no.

One should be enough because there's always something you remember more from your youth than anything else. I remember cassettes just from how much music I was exposed to as a kid.

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I remember cassettes both for the beautiful practise of making mix-tapes as gifts for your friends (and/or sweetheart), as well as a digital (non-audio) data storage device.

(During the height of the C64-hype in the mid-80s, Commodore would sell a cassette-drive that used regular tapes for external data-storage, the "datasette", as a substitute for the more expensive 1541 Floppy-disk drives (5¼").)




Do Kids today do something like that still? Do they send each other playlists as a token of affection?



--- Quote from: Cornelius on 12 Feb 2018, 00:58 ---I still remember the day my father brought a video recorder home. Before that, it was audio cassettes, and vinyls.

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Me, too - though our first one used the Video 2000 format. And from then on, I was the one who held the mythical and powerful office of "Family Master of Recordings", since none of the others ever bothered to learn how to program the damn' things.  :evil:

shanejayell:
There was also a weird CD Rom format for anime that failed, that might  be what Emily is remembering.

DaiJB:
What? No wax cylinders??   :lol:

You know what? I think Emily knows exactly how cyberdiscs work - I think she had something to do with the actual R&D - and something weird started happening when they tested the prototype and a secret government organization shut down the research and neuralyzed the researchers when the cracks in reality started appearing...   :wink:

Tova:

--- Quote from: Case on 12 Feb 2018, 01:10 ---(During the height of the C64-hype in the mid-80s, Commodore would sell a cassette-drive that used regular tapes for external data-storage, the "datasette", as a substitute for the more expensive 1541 Floppy-disk drives (5¼").)

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Ahhh those were the days.

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wheeeee

anahata:
We still have a shelf full of VHS videos at home, and a VHS player that still works.
I was also a big fan of minidisc in its time.

I was quite shocked yesterday to discover that the 2018 Nissan LEAF doesn't have a CD player at all. For all I know, no new cars have CD players any more. And I have hundreds of CDs...

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