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ShawnD1 said:
Even as early as 1995, nobody in the entire world bought cassette tapes. That's the year I bought Nirvana's Nevermind album on CD 😀

Ruby is right about Sony sucking ass. My stereo and my Playstation 1 would random turn off because the power cord is very poorly secured. It doesn't really clip in and it's not a very tight fit. A slight change in the moon's gravitational pull will wiggle the cable enough to turn things off.
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1) CD's still couldn't record back then. I used cassette tapes to record things through the late '90s...even after I had a CD burner (CD-Rs were expensive).

2) Sony's AC power connector is pretty standard and I've never seen an old Playstation develop that particular problem. I think you know this, but self delusion is an skillful art 😉. In fact, the old Playstation seems to be one of the most long-lasting of the 32-bit optical media game consoles.
 
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Sony makes over priced garbage. For bang/buck, I've always liked Panasonic. Not the best as far as features and quality goes, but rock solid reliability.
 
Sea Moose said:
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Your bias is showing.
 
Ichinisan said:
1) CD's still couldn't record back then. I used cassette tapes to record things through the late '90s...even after I had a CD burner (CD-Rs were expensive).

2) Sony's AC power connector is pretty standard and I've never seen an old Playstation develop that particular problem. I think you know this, but self delusion is an skillful art 😉. In fact, the old Playstation seems to be one of the most long-lasting of the 32-bit optical media game consoles.
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Not that it didn't have OTHER notorious reliability problems... like DREs on early units due to the laser shifting as the plastic warmed and deformed. Many people had to turn theirs upside-down for the laser to focus on the disc and work.

Sea Moose said:
I was doing HVAC work in a class room. And i was listening into the class. They were talking about technology.

Teacher asks

"can anyone tell me what this is?"

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And yet most cars on the road still had tape decks standard when originally sold and required extra for the factory CD player. Cassettes truly coexisted through the entire relevant lifetime of CDs.
 
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lxskllr said:
Sony makes over priced garbage. For bang/buck, I've always liked Panasonic. Not the best as far as features and quality goes, but rock solid reliability.
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Panasonic is a good brand. I've always been a fan of Technics CD players for both personal and pro use. A shuttle dial is a must for me and to include it on the lower end (at the time in the late 80s) players was great. Even the ones that did not have it searched much faster as well as having quicker random access times, etc.

Panasonic Lumix digital cameras are pretty nice too.

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You guys are blinding me with science. 😛
 
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I took a class on B&W film photography in sophomore year of college. It made me realize that 99% of today's "photography" is crap. I'm not saying that I'm a pro photographer or anything, but being forced to manually adjust settings, take time to compose a shot (no re-dos) and having to carefully develop each exposure in the darkroom by hand really taught me the value of GOOD photography. With the large number of cheap digital cameras available (especially DSLRs), everyone and their mother is becoming a "photographer".
 
lxskllr said:
Sony makes over priced garbage. For bang/buck, I've always liked Panasonic. Not the best as far as features and quality goes, but rock solid reliability.
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If you ever have to call Panasonic for customer support on their TVs you'll love them even more. Their customer service for their TVs is amazingly good.
 
xanis said:
I took a class on B&W film photography in sophomore year of college. It made me realize that 99% of today's "photography" is crap. I'm not saying that I'm a pro photographer or anything, but being forced to manually adjust settings, take time to compose a shot (no re-dos) and having to carefully develop each exposure in the darkroom by hand really taught me the value of GOOD photography. With the large number of cheap digital cameras available (especially DSLRs), everyone and their mother is becoming a "photographer".
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And the results these folks are getting today are better than they ever got with film. Back then they shot with Instamatics, disk, or Polaroids. Today, they shoot with iPhones. Then, as now, the technical quality of most shots matters not a bit to the shooter. They just want pics of their friends, dogs, or ski trip. At least with digital, they can shoot a bunch and get the one decent shot they used to regularly miss.
 
Don't fault the kids for not knowing, why would they? Have many of them actually seen a cassette tape in use? They had their use at one time and were the best option for music in the car.

When I started driving cassettes were too expensive so we all had 8-Track players...which were terrible but all we had. The tapes were huge and on store bought tapes the music faded in and out at a track change point. Simply annoying.

Then we could all finally afford cassette players in the car. They were great comparably. The only problem being you had to carry suitcases of tapes with you if you wanted to listen to your own music. My whole back seat was full of tape boxes.

The mid 80's brought the CD but at $1000 a pop for a car deck that had no radio they were not ready for prime time. By 1990 they were pretty much standard and I bought my first new car that had a CD deck....the only problem is the slot loading units always seemed to scratch the darn CDs.

Now we have iPods and other portable devices that interface with car stereos holding many more full albums than I could ever fit in the car on cassette tape....all with random track playability.....tell me why a kid is going to CARE about a cassette tape if he even knows what one is?? Not everyone is a student of history or the history of technology.
 
Ronstang said:
Now we have iPods and other portable devices that interface with car stereos holding many more full albums than I could ever fit in the car on cassette tape....all with random track playability.....tell me why a kid is going to CARE about a cassette tape if he even knows what one is?? Not everyone is a student of history or the history of technology.
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What boggles my mind, is why doesn't every single car deck come with a USB port in the front to play music from a thumb drive? It's super easy, and cheap to implement. Screw MP3 players. You can keep a thumb drive on your keychain, and you can get 8gb of storage for $10. It's the perfect car music solution.
 
We used them in school.
I had watches with slide rules for navigation.
I also can navigate with charts and a sextant.
GPS? Who needs that. If a CME takes out the satellites I guess people are going to be SOL. So many people use these GPS devices in their cars - they probably don't even know how to read a map! D:
Old people eh?
Yeah I suppose at 46 on this forum I'm a real granny! :biggrin:
 
Rubycon said:
We used them in school.
I had watches with slide rules for navigation.
I also can navigate with charts and a sextant.
GPS? Who needs that. If a CME takes out the satellites I guess people are going to be SOL. So many people use these GPS devices in their cars - they probably don't even know how to read a map! D:
Old people eh?
Yeah I suppose at 46 on this forum I'm a really granny! :biggrin:
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My mom is 46. I'm a little over half that, so yeah, you old.
 
That plastic thing with the magnetic tape is what I used in the other plastic thing with the door that came with my Timex Sinclair.
 
Rubycon said:
We used them in school.
I had watches with slide rules for navigation.
I also can navigate with charts and a sextant.
GPS? Who needs that. If a CME takes out the satellites I guess people are going to be SOL. So many people use these GPS devices in their cars - they probably don't even know how to read a map! D:
Old people eh?
Yeah I suppose at 46 on this forum I'm a real granny! :biggrin:
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Get off my lawn ya whippersnapper! I wish you hadn't mentioned map reading. I recently had a run in with an Air Force Tech Sergeant who couldn't read a map. How the hell do you become a Sergeant without being able to read a map?
 
MagnusTheBrewer said:
Get off my lawn ya whippersnapper! I wish you hadn't mentioned map reading. I recently had a run in with an Air Force Tech Sergeant who couldn't read a map. How the hell do you become a Sergeant without being able to read a map?
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YESSIR! I MEAN NOSSIR. I MEAN, WHAT SIR!?

Map reading is probably only required for special forces nowadays. I mean, who really is going to be out in the bush with limited communication?
 
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