To: freedumb2003; SamAdams76
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You had Batteries!!!?? How spoiled can you get? We had to keep a 5,000 foot extension cord to listen to the music on our 45-lb Kaypro! And there wasn't WAVs back then -- all of the music was in BMPs that had to be played back one bit at a time! And we kept them on 8 inch floppies! Once song per floppy! And we LIKED it!You had AC power???!!??
Geez, we had to lug around a hand-crank 3-phase generator just to keep the display lit. It took a lawnmower engine with a power take-off to actually play a song. Then there was the trailer for the Voice Of The Theater speakers...
And the songs were stored on 9-track tape reels -- it was a big breakthrough when we switched to cassettes!
And WE liked it!!
40 posted on
09/12/2006 3:30:16 PM PDT by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: dayglored
You guys had MUSIC?????
We just HUMMED at lot...and we LIKED IT!
42 posted on
09/12/2006 4:24:08 PM PDT by
GRRRRR
(Love America? Protect Her, VOTE GOP...they're better than nothing.)
To: dayglored
It took a lawnmower engine with a power take-off to actually play a song. You had a powered lawnmower? I had an old push mower .. no, no, I had to get on my hands and knees to cut each blade of grass individually with my teeth.
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