GO! Record and listen memory lane….
April 17th, 2008 by JimGood old cassette tapes! From vinyl and tapes to CD’s, ipods and podcasts - whatever next?
Jim here, well remembering my amazement when as a 6 year old I was shown how to record my own voice on tape AND record ‘ top secret’ conversations around the house and the top 40 records in the U.K on a Sunday night.
How the time flew by and here we are now with voice recorders on our mobile / cell phones sometimes used in evidence in court.
Do share you recording memories here and have you ever recording a conversation with your phone? Do tell and press # to return to the main menu. Cheers….
I remember my first cassete recorder, I can also remember my first transister radio that was small enough to put in school tunic pocket… we used to run the book at school on the Melbourne cup… hehehehhehehe… shhhh you didnt read that…
I also remember the first computers down here, the first PC, commodore 64… and I can actually remmember when the first Atari’s hit the market… remember ping pong, then sega, then nintenedo…. oh the thrill….
Yes I am that old…
About 2 years ago a met a kid who had never seen a vinyl record…. raised on DVD’s and CD had no idea…. hubby was sorting out his Beatle collection yes Jim a big beatle and dylan man over here… and this kid thought they where frizbees or something.. nearly fainted I did…
I remember reel to reel tapes and clockwork radios. my first computer was an abacus how old am I ??
People from Rossett not allowed
I remember 8 tracks….
I reckon you are around 67 years…. clockworks came out in 1941 and reel to reel tapes 1930’s… and you dont sound 78-80+
how close am I ????
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I am not that bloody old but after a good night on tha drink I feel 90
OOP’s
lol
It was the abacus that stumped me…….
hey I can remember when they first introduced calculators in school
My mum said no way you will use your head…
yum logarhythms…. doing them in my head was not fun…. cos/tangents/etc…… hmmmm….
and I love math mostly algebra…. go figure
Oh I can remember colour TV …..1975… in OZ and I remember my Gran getting the first colour tv in her street all the neighbours would come over and watch the Don Lane Show…. hehehhehe…
A quick challenge for Jim onyou tube
Find Bryn Terfel (a taffy) singing Rule Britannia at the last night of the proms
Wot this Bryn Terfel?
Well done Jim.
Now find the song
I remember LH90 cassette tapes
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hi jim and fellow flower smellers - sorry for a long absence - i’ve been right poorly, jobby and sicky ( I won’t go into any more detail than that, suffice to say I feel like i’ve been reversed over by a steam roller several times and my skeleton seems to have turned to jelly!)
Oh what memories come flooding back! (the tapes not the steam roller bit!)
I remember getting my first radio cassette player back in ‘76/77 as a birthday present from my mum and dad - i thought it was the dogs you-know-what. It had a tape of the last top 40 recorded off the radio itself which i played to death. I also had an abba tape and a tom jones sound-a-like tape as well so i thought i was well wired for sound.
Strolling around the campsite all week - just me and my radio cassette.
Much later i learnt that my dad had been secretly recording down the side of the armchair whilst we’d all been in the room!
Of course, this opens the world of dodgy recordings (i never got the bootleg thing - Chishill wasn’t that advanced in time!) and i’d never heard of them anyway!! a group called the bootlegs???
swapping tapes with friends. ‘mixing’ non-stop melodies by carefully pausing the tape and releasing it on the beat of the next record. If you were lucky, your parents had a music centre - which also taped records and you got to little recording level levers to play with as well. Now the possibilities were endless as you could mix whole albums and singles and cut out all the boring album songs you didn’t like.
Rememeber how pleased with yourself you were when you showed a new-comer how to take up the slack with a pencil on the reel mechanism?
My brother was 40 last weekend (happy birthday bruv’) and his inlaws and their sons/families all chipped in and bought him a 4gb nanopod - he hadn’t got a clue how to use it but he does have a computer so thats a start - the sons are re-visiting to put some content on for him - he’ll soon be addicted.
That really leaves the one question - not how will it end - prob music on demand - your brain hums a tune or thinks of a tune and the earpiece will go off and retreive it and play it or store it for later. You’ll pay a yearly fee like a TV licence fee for all downloads and thats it! No I meant in terms of storage - we used to think C90 were the limit - C120’s were too thin and always breaking. Then came the chrome and metal - were they really any better? then came video and the 4 hr video finally arrived. Wow - a whole album on one double sided tape if you were lucky.
Now we talk of gb’s of songs - thousands of tunes and video to call on - whose collection is that big anyway?
Fond rememberances - the c90 is dead - long live the c90 and for introducing the pre-ipod generation to portable music.
Jonathan (aka purple13)
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Wait what??? What’s a cassette tape…. I never heard of one…. please explain….and what the heck is a record?
zack man - let me lay it on you reel cool like…..
casette tape is a about the size of an ipod touch - bit thicker - and usually see-through. two little twin spools with a coated tape running between them (wound round one and spooling onto the other) - dead cool for swapping fav tunes - no wat I min (arry!)
Them them new fangled records - just a platter of vynil that had a spiral groove (groovy man) cut into both sides which you listen to by balancing a stylus needle that ‘read’ the groove and converted the scratching into music via the gubbins inside. Usually required a shilling (old 5p piece) or newer 2p piece to balance the arm so th eneedle didn’t keep skipping.
It was also uselful to hide the vacuum cleaner and the electric food processor which you could guarantee your mum would start using the moment you set anything to record.
Word of warning - listen to what you record before any public airings!
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