Posted on 04/15/2014 9:47:23 AM PDT by C19fan
Children's perplexed reactions to a Sony Walkman have been caught on camera, with the majority frustrated at operating clunky buttons over a touch screen. Los Angeles-based filmmakers Benny and Rafi Fine asked volunteers aged six to 13 to guess what the bulky device was, with suggestions including a 'walkie-talkie' or 'boombox'. 'What is this?' one nine-year-old girl quizzed as she investigated the Eighties-era cassette player, while another exclaimed 'I'm not going to give up, I'm a survivor,' as she determinedly tried to figure out how it worked.
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Pickett (aluminum) or K&E (bamboo)?
K&E, all the way!!!!
LOL!!
We used to debate in engrg school about the ambient temp effect on the two different materials.
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In my junior year(1975), my fiancee buys me a Texas Instrument calculator. Hottest thing on the market—$157.00.
That was a week’s pay for her at the time.
Made her take it back for a refund, I got better results with the slipstick.
Guys who used the calculators had no sense of the numbers and wrote down whatever the screen said was the answer.
If you did not know what you were doing, the calculator did not help you at all.
BTW, I married that girl. Wed 38 years this coming August.
Well done!
I can still get tape,,, but I have to look for it.
Sad !!!
Why in the world would that be sad...?
I betcha there are several tools / devices from the early part of the last century you and I would be completely clueless what they are and how are they used...
Is it sad, or is it just happening faster now?
Women who had come of age in 1895 would have been horrified to see what their daughters were wearing in 1920. To say nothing about the new technology that ended the world as they knew it:
Automobiles
Electricity
Telephone communication
It seems as though time is speeding up.
You’re a little behind the times, I could walk into walmart, grab a random smart phone off the rack, sign in and walk out with my phone book, calender and documents on the phone by the time I walked out.
I’ve lost an address book, the paper kind, before and that was really bad. I’m pretty happy having a copy on my phone with a backup in the cloud.
There’s no question-an analog signal source and tube amplification. There’s nothing better.
I've seen those, but they always look cheap to me. I mean actual home-stereo, analog turntables (some of which are quite pricey and intended for DJing). As a musician, one of my future purchase plans is a decent USB analog-digital converter, so I agree with you that the best option is to plug a regular turntable into that.
The phone(s) do have the numbers but the list is really short, hence scratching out an extra copy in a notebook or two is no big deal.
I have my truly need-to-know info committed to memory. :)
You were lucky to have a house! We had to live in a corridor.
Sad, but the 4th gen iPod is actually better for music than the present ipod., IMHO.
That’s the spirit.
Have you seen the Monty python skit? I think it’s part of the movie, The Secret Policeman’s Other Ball
I haven’t, but I have heard it several times.
One thing about mag tape — it degrades over time. I have several min-DV and Hi8 video tapes that I am worried about.
Proof that our high our high tech world isn't all that great because in couple decades everyone’s movies and digital pictures will be gone forever. Flash drives are no better. BTW, I have copied my tapes to a back up drive.
I have a firewire/1394 A/D that does video and audio. It is compatible with my video editing and rendering software. Have used it a lot. Less now since everything is already digital. But it does come in handy from time to time.
Some pretty cool things that you can do once the audio is digitized. I removed a bunch of pops from my LP rips.
Also, the video software has a bunch of audio filtering utilities. And there is companion software that does a lot more such as removing harmonics from 120Hz pickup. My wedding tape had this problem. What is cool is that once the audio is cleaned up, you can run it back through the software to look for any anomalies and distortion.
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