How many of you are old enough to know what these are for?

[Rubycon]

I still do.

:\

you just need to know which end to lick from.

Wow that is just begging for a pun!

I was a Stanford, Ortofon (my favourite) and ADC guy. Only have a Technics and Dual left. Misplaced the arm counterweight for the Technics. Gonna need to find it when I set my sound system again. I may buy one of those USB turntables to rip some of my LPs to listen on my PC.

Stanford or Stanton?

That reminds me of the stroboscope platters and pitch adjustments. I loved those - brings back memories of pitching up Donna Summer's Bad Girls when I would sing along. That was the summer of '79.

 

[guyver01]

I've probably got 100 or so 45s out in the garage. Irritating format. They're very labor intensive.

You need to get one of these:

http://www.usbturntables.net/ionlp2cdusbturntablewithdirecttocdrecording-p-8737.html

ION LP 2 CD USB Turntable with direct-to-CD recording

 

[Evadman]

I have AC/DC back in black on vinyl.

 

[dennilfloss]

Wow that is just begging for a pun!



Stanford or Stanton?

That reminds me of the stroboscope platters and pitch adjustments. I loved those - brings back memories of pitching up Donna Summer's Bad Girls when I would sing along. That was the summer of '79.

Stanton. Damn memory cells.:\

I have that LP. Might even have more than one copy.

 

[lxskllr]

You need to get one of these:

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http://www.usbturntables.net/ionlp2cdusbturntablewithdirecttocdrecording-p-8737.html

ION LP 2 CD USB Turntable with direct-to-CD recording

I had gotten an mp3 player that could record off of line-in for the purpose of transferring my records to digital format. I soon after got cable internet, and found that bittorrent worked quicker :^D

I don't have much that's isn't available somewhere digitally. There's a few, but I can crank up the turntable for occasional use :^)

 

[dennilfloss]

You need to get one of these:

http://www.usbturntables.net/ionlp2cdusbturntablewithdirecttocdrecording-p-8737.html

ION LP 2 CD USB Turntable with direct-to-CD recording

How's the quality of the digital output?

 

[ScoobMaster]

The Atari 2600 did rock, but you could not take it studyhall in middle school like you could these:

Gameboy? PSP? BAH! We have MOVING LEDs!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[lxskllr]

missile command is such an amazing game

everyone knows Combat was the most awesome !

I've gotta agree with both of you. I liked Missile Command for single player, and Combat for multi!? player.

Missile Command was probably the truest to the arcade version, and Combat was just plain fun. So simple, but my favorite for the system.

 

[lxskllr]

The Atari 2600 did rock, but you could not take it studyhall in middle school like you could these:

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Gameboy? PSP? BAH! We have MOVING LEDs!!!!!!!!!!!

A friend of mine had that!! It was kind of fun if I remember right.

 

[ScoobMaster]

BTW, I have ripped a few of my old 12" vinyl albums. I simply pulled out my vintage 1985 turntable and hooked it up into my sound card's line input.

 

[Rubycon]

How's the quality of the digital output?

I would be more concerned of the speed accuracy. Someone digitized some LPs for me with a similar (USB turntable) and the pitch was off by 55 cents. I have perfect pitch (hearing) and that drives me CRAZY. It was fairly easy to fix in sound forge but if you are an absolute purist the fact that the needle is going through the grooves faster than the original cutting stylus creates some funky distortions that pitch shifting in the digital domain does not fix.

Not an issue as leaving them alone was FAR worse. (to me)

 

[ScoobMaster]

A friend of mine had that!! It was kind of fun if I remember right.

If you remember that game, you might like to kill some time and rekindle some memories at this site:

http://www.handheldmuseum.com/

 

[Rubycon]

The Atari 2600 did rock, but you could not take it studyhall in middle school like you could these:

Gameboy? PSP? BAH! We have MOVING LEDs!!!!!!!!!!!

I used to grab them from the boys and hold them up to an AM radio. It made the sound 100X more interesting. I even told them the electric waves were going through their hands and chest while they were playing these games and it would make them kiss girls when they got older. They thought I was crazy.

 

[dennilfloss]

I would be more concerned of the speed accuracy. Someone digitized some LPs for me with a similar (USB turntable) and the pitch was off by 55 cents. I have perfect pitch (hearing) and that drives me CRAZY. It was fairly easy to fix in sound forge but if you are an absolute purist the fact that the needle is going through the grooves faster than the original cutting stylus creates some funky distortions that pitch shifting in the digital domain does not fix.

Not an issue as leaving them alone was FAR worse. (to me)

No strobe for speed adjustment?D:

 

[Rubycon]

No strobe for speed adjustment?D:

Apparently not.

A belt drive with synchronous AC motor will give faithful speed in most cases. DC motors will be notorious for speed issues. The cheaper ones with strobes still had to be watched because they could drift. The real ones had a crystal oven that kept it locked dead on even as the house warmed up.

 

[spacejamz]

The Atari 2600 did rock, but you could not take it studyhall in middle school like you could these:

Gameboy? PSP? BAH! We have MOVING LEDs!!!!!!!!!!!

some reissued versions I picked up a few years ago...

 

[lxskllr]

If you remember that game, you might like to kill some time and rekindle some memories at this site:

http://www.handheldmuseum.com/

Cool site :^)

I found this there. I think it's still at my mother's house...

Edit:
My first console...

 

[ScoobMaster]

Nice.

My first console was a single Pong unit (maybe Telstar, but I can't remember for sure)

*EDIT*

Found it. Yep, it was a Telstar ALPHA:

 

[dennilfloss]

This was my favourite store during the 70s.

http://www.audiolight.qc.ca/

 

[lxskllr]

Since we've got the time machine cranked up, here was my first stereo. I used this for a long time until I got a "real" one from a neighbors yard sale :^D The only filmstrips I remember are Puss n Boots, and Snow White, but I had a few of them.

 

[ScoobMaster]

Since we've got the time machine cranked up, here was my first stereo. I used this for a long time until I got a "real" one from a neighbors yard sale :^D The only filmstrips I remember are Puss n Boots, and Snow White, but I had a few of them.

OMG! I had one of those too (mine was that WONDERFUL shade of 70s "harvest gold"). I had a ton of the Disney classics for it too.

I wish I could keep riding the time machine with all you other "kids" of the 70s/80s, but work time comes at 6:00 AM EST and I need SOME sleep.

I'll catch up with the thread in a few hours

Thanks for the memories!

 

[Rubycon]

Funny how the words transistorized and solid state appeared on new technology back in the '70s. Wow it has no tubes and comes on instantly.

I miss the warming up of the tubes.

Going way back when autos ran on six volts the radios had tubes and the high voltage was provided by induction coils kicked with vibrators. Before the tubes provided intelligible signal one could hear the vibrator humming away. That was pretty cool.

 

[lxskllr]

I miss the warming up of the tubes.

Going way back when autos ran on six volts the radios had tubes and the high voltage was provided by induction coils kicked with vibrators. Before the tubes provided intelligible signal one could hear the vibrator humming away. That was pretty cool.

That was before my time. The only 6V car I remember was a friends old beetle, but the radio didn't work in that :^D I like vacuum tubes. The backs of TVs smelled awesome with the tubes glowing away :^)

 

[guyver01]

Wow that is just begging for a pun!

i think that was the point.

 

[seemingly random]

You mean back when Fisher was a quality brand? Turntables and vinyl seem like a century ago. I only had a couple of those annoying 45s and would just center them visually on the thorens. Cassette tape deck quality got pretty damn good so most of my lp collection went on tape. I wouldn't play an lp more than once a day to ward off permanent vinyl deformation. Funny, they've been in an unheated barn now for years...