This should make some of you feel old.

**SpankMe** · 30th June 2009, 16:43

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** · 30th June 2009, 16:50

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** · 30th June 2009, 16:58

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!

**Indiana_Jones** · 30th June 2009, 17:04

I loved my Walkman as a kid lol

They still make them by the way

-Indy

**dogsnbikes** · 30th June 2009, 17:06

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

**junkmanjoe** · 30th June 2009, 17:10

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** · 30th June 2009, 17:11

Originally Posted by Indiana_Jones

I loved my Walkman as a kid lol

They still make them by the way

-Indy

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

**Str8 Jacket** · 30th June 2009, 17:16

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

**BiK3RChiK** · 30th June 2009, 17:21

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** · 30th June 2009, 17:28

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

ahahahahahahaha

"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** · 30th June 2009, 17:38

Originally Posted by 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!"

They did. It was called a laserdisc.

**MSTRS:Me** · 30th June 2009, 17:53

Originally Posted by 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!

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** · 30th June 2009, 18:03

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:Me** · 30th June 2009, 18:04

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