Prowler573
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R.I.P. Gossamer!!
Okay - now that you're looking at the thread title probably going "WTF is Prowler on about NOW?!?" here's what I'm talking about.
My house has recently become a non-smoking area for a list of various reasons so those of us who live here and those that visit and have this awful habit are now made to go outside to light up.
Consequently the back porch has turned into quite the heavily-used common area since the majority of those who visit here smoke and most of the actual residents do as well. Just for something to do one evening when I was bored I put my only remaining unused headunit and some really crappy speakers that I once bought for a work truck (Don't laugh too hard - they were $10 per enclosure preloaded with the ultra-generic drivers contained within...so, all in all the two boxes together are easily worth $20 just to have something to listen to) outside for the purposes of having some tunes going while smoking, sitting around visiting, or whatever.
Well, the only headunit I have left that isn't currently in use in a car happens to be the very last cassette receiver I ever bought myself ~ A Kenwood KRC-608. You see boys and girls, not all of us that participate here are young enough to have never bought an aftermarket HU that wasn't a CD deck. Some of us are old enough to date back to the days when nobody had CD players in their cars because they didn't exist in the mainstream market yet or at the very least if they did your average joe couldn't afford one.
This specific unit happens to be the last one I ever used with a 10-disc changer in the trunk. For a tape deck it's pretty full-featured but it's a tape deck nonetheless. (And it was a major pain in the posterior trying to remember the security code after connecting it to power seeing as I programmed it in HOW many years ago now?!?)
Pic of my uber-ghetto back porch audio setup:
At any rate ~ since there was a tape deck hooked up and going I went and dug out my old cassette tapes from the attic just to see what I had on tape that I haven't listened to in quite some time.
Digging through one multi-tape case I happened across a tape containing two albums I had copied to cassette a good long while ago - it is the very first two albums by AC/DC which, oddly enough, have the same title but contain different songs. One was an Australian-only release and the other was a worldwide release. As I sat there and listened to the tape for the 1st time in a great long while I picked up the case the tape had been in to see if my handwriting had changed significantly through the years (it hasn't) and that was when I noticed the date on the back of the insert: 12/03/87.
Come this December it will have been fully two decades ago that I dubbed that tape from LP and it still plays just fine!
Now - to the real point of this thread....how many of you still have 4-track cassette tapes hanging around for whatever reason(s) and for those of you that do are any of them considerably older than a cassette tape has any right to be and still work right?
Discuss ~~~
My house has recently become a non-smoking area for a list of various reasons so those of us who live here and those that visit and have this awful habit are now made to go outside to light up.
Consequently the back porch has turned into quite the heavily-used common area since the majority of those who visit here smoke and most of the actual residents do as well. Just for something to do one evening when I was bored I put my only remaining unused headunit and some really crappy speakers that I once bought for a work truck (Don't laugh too hard - they were $10 per enclosure preloaded with the ultra-generic drivers contained within...so, all in all the two boxes together are easily worth $20 just to have something to listen to) outside for the purposes of having some tunes going while smoking, sitting around visiting, or whatever.
Well, the only headunit I have left that isn't currently in use in a car happens to be the very last cassette receiver I ever bought myself ~ A Kenwood KRC-608. You see boys and girls, not all of us that participate here are young enough to have never bought an aftermarket HU that wasn't a CD deck. Some of us are old enough to date back to the days when nobody had CD players in their cars because they didn't exist in the mainstream market yet or at the very least if they did your average joe couldn't afford one.
This specific unit happens to be the last one I ever used with a 10-disc changer in the trunk. For a tape deck it's pretty full-featured but it's a tape deck nonetheless. (And it was a major pain in the posterior trying to remember the security code after connecting it to power seeing as I programmed it in HOW many years ago now?!?)
Pic of my uber-ghetto back porch audio setup:
At any rate ~ since there was a tape deck hooked up and going I went and dug out my old cassette tapes from the attic just to see what I had on tape that I haven't listened to in quite some time.
Digging through one multi-tape case I happened across a tape containing two albums I had copied to cassette a good long while ago - it is the very first two albums by AC/DC which, oddly enough, have the same title but contain different songs. One was an Australian-only release and the other was a worldwide release. As I sat there and listened to the tape for the 1st time in a great long while I picked up the case the tape had been in to see if my handwriting had changed significantly through the years (it hasn't) and that was when I noticed the date on the back of the insert: 12/03/87.
Come this December it will have been fully two decades ago that I dubbed that tape from LP and it still plays just fine!
Now - to the real point of this thread....how many of you still have 4-track cassette tapes hanging around for whatever reason(s) and for those of you that do are any of them considerably older than a cassette tape has any right to be and still work right?
Discuss ~~~
