ever tried jogging wi an 8track???
Posted on 03/10/2021 7:29:37 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin
Lou Ottens, inventor of the cassette tape and a CD pioneer died aged 94 at his home in Duizel in Brabant on Saturday, Dutch media report.
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Not much better than the dreaded 8 track tape.
I don’t really miss them.
ever tried jogging wi an 8track???
The 8 trac was pretty neat when it came out.
I’ll take a CD over vinyl,tape or digital.
I listened to an audio book of Shelby Foote’s The Civil War: A Narrative , (three volumes), on cassette tape, while driving a big rig. Considering they were a library copy and the cassette player was a el+cheapo, they performed surprisingly well.
When I was a boy, a local radio station used to play uninterrupted albums late at night. Perfect for cassette recording. A cheap way to get music.
"Clunk!"
Yea, that was pretty neat in the middle of a song.
I had LPS that I bought on 8 trac and then had to buy on cassette and finally on CD. I like digital.
My Dad and I would exchange cassette tape voice 'letters' when I was in Vietnam, '70-'71, still have them somewhere.
People taped the speeches of Ronald Reagan and John Paul II and passed around those cassette tapes.
Thank you Mr. Ottens.
The phonograph I had kept skipping every time I hit a bump in my pickup. 😀
Fortunately I skipped the ridiculous 8-track and went straight to cassette. I loved it when the tape started winding around the capstan and you frantically ran for the machine to stop the self-destruction and see if you could salvage the tape.
What an abomination these things were.
I had a Sony TC-640 reel-to-reel tape recorder before the cassette and it was wonderful in the home stereo system. It had an absolutely bullet-proof tape transport. But to make a mix back then was such a huge pain in the next — queueing up your songs on the albums, starting the tape at the right instant, repeating that process all in real time. Ugh.
I thought CDs were an absolute Godsend with superb sound quality and instant changing to any song. Then MP3 — wow.
For a good 15 to 20 years I ripped my entire CD collection to MP3, then continued buying used CDs and borrowing them from the public library to build up my home digital library. It wasn’t that long ago I finally settled on Spotify and use it almost exclusively now. My hearing is declining in my late 60s now, so Spotify sound quality is all I need. No interest in Tidal.
Natural causes or death by muslim
Its the netherlands after all
“The phonograph I had kept skipping every time I hit a bump in my pickup.”
https://www.cnet.com/news/chryslers-in-car-phonograph/
That’s not true! Unless you can tell me why a cassette wouldn’t play the other side in reverse when you flipped it over, you have no standing in this somewhat tech geek forum sir!
I can still remember where the breaks were when listening to regular versions today.
I was joking when I posted that, but yeah.
RIP
Doctors tried to save him with a number 2 pencil and some scotch tape but he was beyond repair.
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