This should make some of you feel old.

[SpankMe]

The Magazine invited 13-year-old Scott Campbell to swap his iPod for a Walkman for a week.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8117619.stm

I only got around to throwing out my old cassettes awhile ago after they had sat on the shelve for years gathering dust. I haven't owned a cassette player for decades.

[MIXONE]

Many moons ago my nephews saw my old album collection.The pulled out one record and went "Wow I never knew they made cds that big!"
I felt old then and even older now.

[gijoe1313]

Watch out! Ixion will come around and start warbling about how they had to cut boulders out of cliffs and carve them to a portable hand size so they could tap them together for portable music or summit like that! :whistle:

[Indiana_Jones]

I loved my Walkman as a kid lol

They still make them by the way (http://www.dse.co.nz/dse.shop/4a499cb8011cac722740c0a87f3b06f2/Product/View/A4241)

-Indy

[dogsnbikes]

I was already feeling old before.... just made me relise though my car still has the factory cassette player,my stereo has a cassette player and I still have cassette's:wari:

[junkmanjoe]

the first casset tape i brought was
ACDC Blow up your video...

i still got it,
but my ute has a cd player in it.....

[Maha]

I loved my Walkman as a kid lol

They still make them by the way (http://www.dse.co.nz/dse.shop/4a499cb8011cac722740c0a87f3b06f2/Product/View/A4241)

-Indy

To modern....
79' was good year!!!!!:Punk:

[Str8 Jacket]

Wow, I am waaay younger than you spank and I still have and listen to my tapes! Gotta love Bob on tape! :wari:

[BiK3RChiK]

You gotta love the young eh! Driving it home.......

" but I also learned a lot about the grandfather of the MP3 Player."

" I'm relieved that the majority of technological advancement happened before I was born, as I can't imagine having to use such basic equipment every day."

If it wasn't for early technology like this, there would be no i-pod.

Oh, and I love this...

"Did my dad, Alan, really ever think this was a credible piece of technology?"

[Indiana_Jones]

"It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape."

ahahahahahahaha :killingme

"Another notable feature that the iPod has and the Walkman doesn't is "shuffle", where the player selects random tracks to play. Its a function that, on the face of it, the Walkman lacks."

No shit Sherlock lol

-Indy

[SpankMe]

Many moons ago my nephews saw my old album collection.The pulled out one record and went "Wow I never knew they made cds that big!"

They did. It was called a laserdisc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserdisc).

[MSTRS]

Watch out! Ixion will come around and start warbling about how they had to cut boulders out of cliffs and carve them to a portable hand size so they could tap them together for portable music or summit like that! :whistle:

We used to dream of having cliffs to get boulders from...we had to stick sand together with Stegosaurus snot (tried working with that stuff?) to get chunks big enough to bang together...

[junkmanjoe]

you guys go through this time zone..mid to late 80's

the one i had took 10 D size batterys.
and made a good noise...

[FROSTY]

If ya wanna feel REALLY old. Back when computers were the size of a house I got to "program" in a question into one.
The way you did it was to punch out a tiny square hole out of a piece of cardboard.One card per detail
20 friggin punch cards to ask the computer what 2 plus 2 minus three equals.
Holey cow and now we get to yak to people in norway at the click of a key

[Nasty]

I have Grubs old stereo downstairs ... its great .. made the year I was born! Good a lovely turntable .. and records to play on it!

[Big Dave]

I got my first walkman in 1981 - no steenking cassettes though.

Effffff emmmmmm no static at all. no range at all and hardly any reception at all.

It was still great for riding my Bonneville around Perth. But those ear muffs got uncomfortable - it was a quite a while before bud phones were less than the players.

http://www.pocketcalculatorshow.com/walkman/sony/graphics/srf-40.jpg

[Indiana_Jones]

I love my LPs and turntable :love:

-Indy

[Maha]

you guys go through this time zone..mid to late 80's

the one i had took 10 D size batterys.
and made a good noise...

Or, as they were known in south Auckland and beyond....' An Otara Briefcase'

[Subike]

I have an 8 track sterio that still works in my furniture truck, 1/2 doz cassettes to play on it, Beach boys, Elvis, The Mods, to name a couple of the artists. still rocks out the sounds , better than the CD player that falters all the time from the vibration of the old desiel mtr.
8 tracks rock!

[slofox]

Arrrrr I never went for that new fangled "walkman" stuff..far too bloody hi tech for the likes of me...now in MY day, we....(fill in your own raving bullshit here )

[jrandom]

:killingme

My favourite line: "I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser."

[tri boy]

Anybody want a promotion only copy of the B-52's on vinyl?
Form a Q, and name ya price.<_<

[Big Dave]

Anybody want a promotion only copy of the B-52's on vinyl?
Form a Q, and name ya price.<_<

I'll take it off your hands for $10.
I'll send you my bank details and you can direct transfer the cash into it.

[tri boy]

Throw in a 12week sortie on the soon to arrive KR Thunderbird, and your almost got a deal.

[Big Dave]

Throw in a 12week sortie on the soon to arrive KR Thunderbird, and your almost got a deal.

I press bike x 5 publications unfortunately - and then it's spoken for at a Dealer I believe.

Second batch will have better access.

[tri boy]

And a lil tri boy waits.......

[tri boy]

Effffff emmmmmm no static at all.

Oh yeah baby, got that one too:Punk:

[sunhuntin]

i adore records, and they were the whole reason i bought the stereo i did [back when i was like 16 from farmers, lol.] ive even got records that i brought back from canada... lynyrd skynyrd. :Punk:

what makes me feel old is the fact the toys i adored are now referred to as vintage, and even scarier is the fact some of them are in their 4th reincarnation in 25 years. :blink:
about the only toys from the 80s that i havent seen since would be he-man. everything else has been back at least once. [care bears, pound puppies, cabbage patch kids, transformers etc]

[tri boy]

BP smurfs?
Common S/huntin, I bet you have a huge stash.

[coffeejunkie]

He Man, LOL, My little bro has a mint collection

[sunhuntin]

BP smurfs?
Common S/huntin, I bet you have a huge stash.

bp did smurfs? heck, by the time i got there, all the "buy $20 petrol and get a book/toy/etc for $5" had long gone.
only things we "gave away" were disney/pixar cars keyrings with 2 bottles of coke. of course, i tucked a set away for me, but ended up giving them to kids who were upset that whatever character had sold out. 3 years later, ive finally put together a complete set via op shops.

[tri boy]

Mechanic Smurf graced my GS1100G keyring from day one.

[Conquiztador]

I miss my 2-sided LP record player. Can't find them anywhere anymore. Looked like a oversized toastie maker standing up. You open the lid and place the LP inside standing up, close the lid and it will play both sides. Over and over and...

[Big Dave]

If you strangle a smurf what colour does it turn?

[Robbo]

This will make you feel even older if you remember it.
The Sound Burger.

[Conquiztador]

I had a battery driven small mono record player. (Looked like a small briefcase and when opened voila!) We used to have it when we went camping. Together with cheap wine and young girls it was must for a inspiring night...

[junkmanjoe]

i used to play the big records on the 45 speed....sounds like chip munks..

my grand dad had a valve radio, size of a small fridge..
he used to turn it on,,, put some coal in the chippy, make a cup of tea, and sit down, by then the valves had warmed
up enough for the sound to come out....

classic man..

i used to look in the back and see the valves glowing...

[Laava]

I have an old Pioneer component car stereo with 2 tape decks, 2 graphic eq and 3 amps and couldn't get $5 for the lot on TM.

[Indiana_Jones]

This will make you feel even older if you remember it.
The Sound Burger.

That is so fucking awesome!

-Indy

[Disco Dan]

I'm probably the only person to sell a CD player and buy an old tape deck for my cage.

Love cassettes!

Oh and what wally is going to try and nick that! :wari:




...oh yeah - Disco's Back.

[Indiana_Jones]

...oh yeah - Disco's Back.

You keep telling yourself that mate.... :shutup:

-Indy

[MaxB]

The first one I got was plastic in about 1980. I don't even think it had 2 capstans. One was just a post of plastic. I still wore it out.

The second one was about 1984. I saved like a months wages from a student job to afford it. It was alloy bodied, had a 5-band graphic equaliser, Dolby B/C (remember Dolby?) and metal tape. Man I loved that thing. It got stolen in a house burglary in 94. They left my wife's jewelery box alone and swiped my Walkman the bastards!

I got a Discman after that but it didn't go loud enough for my tastes.

As an aside I sold one of my old cars at Christmas. The new owner's excited son said "Dad, Dad its even got a slot for an iPod adaptor." He was talking about my factory Alpine state of the art radio cassette player.

[MSTRS]

i used to look in the back and see the valves glowing...

...and snuffle up that wonderful smell of dust scorching?

[Swoop]

I still have my SONY Sports walkman sitting in a drawer. 2 X AA batteries and it still goes well.


This will make you feel even older if you remember it.
The Sound Burger.
Anyone remember the little toy van that you could put onto an LP and it would drive around-and-around playing the record??

Thomas Dolby...
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[Big Dave]

I'm probably the only person to sell a CD player and buy an old tape deck for my cage.
Love cassettes!
Oh and what wally is going to try and nick that! :wari:
...oh yeah - Disco's Back.


May the God of the Capstan and the munted tape watch over you. Experience will bring you round eventually.

[tri boy]

okay, six weeks on the KR T Bird, and a bottle of fizzy.

B-52's art director was listed as .....Sue Ab Surb.
Hair dresser was La Verne.
ya can't make that shit up.

[Lias]

I had a battery driven small mono record player. (Looked like a small briefcase and when opened voila!) We used to have it when we went camping. Together with cheap wine and young girls it was must for a inspiring night...

My mum had one of those when I was a kid, cept hers was really oldschool.. It was a 78 RPM player! And the only 78's she had were an antique boxed collection of french lessons on vinyl.