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What happens when you have a 13-year old give up his iPod for a Walkman?

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Originally posted by: TecHNooB
Scott Campbell is much smarter than I was at 13 😱
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Which is why I question this entire article.
If it really was written by a child prodigy I dont think all those things would have confused him.
 
Originally posted by: RapidSnail
Originally posted by: Sea Moose
I think its hilarious in family guy, where herbet is trying to tune chris and plays the old grammer phone.... that shit is hilarious
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Grammer phone?!?































Clearly it should be grammar phone....:roll:
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LOL,

grammer phone ... grammar phone.

 
I was at my moms house when my niece who was 5 years old at the time came into the kitchen complaining the tv was broken. I walked into the living room and it was working fine, I told her it was fine. She told me "no its broken, there is no color".

I love lucy was on the tv.

Man I feel old.
 
Originally posted by: Modelworks
I was at my moms house when my niece who was 5 years old at the time came into the kitchen complaining the tv was broken. I walked into the living room and it was working fine, I told her it was fine. She told me "no its broken, there is no color".

I love lucy was on the tv.

Man I feel old.
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My first bunch of years growing up I had a B&W TV. It also used vacuum tubes, and you had to wait for it to warm up before the picture would start. I used to like the smell of the electronics after they were heated up for awhile :^)
 
Originally posted by: lxskllr
Originally posted by: Modelworks
I was at my moms house when my niece who was 5 years old at the time came into the kitchen complaining the tv was broken. I walked into the living room and it was working fine, I told her it was fine. She told me "no its broken, there is no color".

I love lucy was on the tv.

Man I feel old.
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My first bunch of years growing up I had a B&W TV. It also used vacuum tubes, and you had to wait for it to warm up before the picture would start. I used to like the smell of the electronics after they were heated up for awhile :^)
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Yeah I had one of those when I was 12. I love the smell of burning dust on vacuum tubes 🙂

I later took it apart. I was surprised to see Xray warnings all over the inside and tubes inside metal boxes, but being a kid, I thought that was cool !

 
The wife is a graduate student, and she was telling me that some of her "hipster" students have been sporting the old school Walkman on campus. A retro "cool" thing, I suppose.
 
Originally posted by: Brainonska511
Originally posted by: Sea Moose
How old are you Queas?


I got caught out, when it was undecided between dvd or minidisc, i was sure that the world would go minidisc. Better quality, and you cannot scratch a mini disc. But no, the world is shit and i have a heap of music on mini disc that i cant play.

Its is amazing how fast the technology moves forward. I bought a Lcd Tv in Janurary and its all Rca inputs. my neigbour bought an lcd tv this week (same brand same model, bigger size) and its all hdmi inputs.
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They actually released music on minidisc?

From ~5th grade through 10th grade, I listened to music on a portable CD player. In early HS, I upgraded to one that could read MP3 CDs. Then in 11th, I got myself a Creative hard drive player. I don't remember the CD players ever being that big though - a little larger than the CD itself for the latter ones, and the first one was a little more rectangular.

My older brother did have a tape player, but that wasn't that big either. I guess since it was the late '90s....
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I waas huge into minidisc in college. It really wasn't the minidisc versus the dvd at all. It was more or less the minidisc versus the status quo CD. People never really got into recording digital music at that point in time. Minidisc recorders were 300 bucks + and were sold in only a handful of electronics stores with barely a selection of players/recorders. I ordered nearly all of mine from Japan. I showed friends the red beam from teh optical cable and they were blown away. "Whoa almost CD quality recordings!".

The minidisc was a great format but once the mp3 wave caught on it was Game Over.

 
Originally posted by: KevinH
Originally posted by: Brainonska511
Originally posted by: Sea Moose
How old are you Queas?


I got caught out, when it was undecided between dvd or minidisc, i was sure that the world would go minidisc. Better quality, and you cannot scratch a mini disc. But no, the world is shit and i have a heap of music on mini disc that i cant play.

Its is amazing how fast the technology moves forward. I bought a Lcd Tv in Janurary and its all Rca inputs. my neigbour bought an lcd tv this week (same brand same model, bigger size) and its all hdmi inputs.
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They actually released music on minidisc?

From ~5th grade through 10th grade, I listened to music on a portable CD player. In early HS, I upgraded to one that could read MP3 CDs. Then in 11th, I got myself a Creative hard drive player. I don't remember the CD players ever being that big though - a little larger than the CD itself for the latter ones, and the first one was a little more rectangular.

My older brother did have a tape player, but that wasn't that big either. I guess since it was the late '90s....
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I waas huge into minidisc in college. It really wasn't the minidisc versus the dvd at all. It was more or less the minidisc versus the status quo CD. People never really got into recording digital music at that point in time. Minidisc recorders were 300 bucks + and were sold in only a handful of electronics stores with barely a selection of players/recorders. I ordered nearly all of mine from Japan. I showed friends the red beam from teh optical cable and they were blown away. "Whoa almost CD quality recordings!".

The minidisc was a great format but once the mp3 wave caught on it was Game Over.
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After college (which I don't think it was that long ago, circa 2000) I thought about getting a Minidisc player. I thought they would catch on . . . but I suppose the plethora of MP3s and MP3 players did do them in.

 
Originally posted by: MovingTarget
Heh....should let the kid trade in his cell for a beeper or one of the old AT&T brick models.
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Maybe a cell phone that's the size of a desktop phone, and has to be hardwired into the car with an enormous transceiver box, and a 18" antenna for the roof :^D
 
Ah, the good old days. I remember just sitting next to the radio and wait till a I liked came on so I could record it on cassette. Then got a portable CD player and put it in pocket which made a huge bulge; it was fun watching people stare. Jumped on the mp3 market with a 32mb player. I had to downgrade all my songs to really shitty quality so I could fit in more songs. When my friend showed me his MD Walkman I was so jealous of all the songs it could hold.
 
The writing isn't that good. I'm sure that many 13 year olds can produce a similar piece. If he had help in any area besides editing, it would have been a general outline. His form, splitting everything into different subsections like sound, digital relief, and convenience probably made it look more professional than it really was.
 
When I was 13 I had a pocket rocker. With a Bon Jovi and Fat Boys tape, possibly Cutting Crew as well.
 
Originally posted by: ChaoZ
Then got a portable CD player and put it in pocket which made a huge bulge; it was fun watching people stare.
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Would you walk up to chicks and say, "Yea that's right."???
 
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