cassettes are making a comeback

[humble_pie]

Driving in Maine with two French people in the car, we spotted a truck with a vanity license plate that read "PIANO KC." Presumably it was owned by a guy named Casey who played the piano, but my French companions exploded in laughter because in French it translated to "broken piano."

haha that's Oka

[Sherlock]

The Acura TL had a cassette player as late as 2008:

[Berubeland]

So weird this brought back memories of wearing out my favourite tapes. I only wore out two mostly because my parents were way too lame to to buy me music

Eye of the tiger - Survivor
Madonna - Some kind of compilation...

And that sound the tape made when you rewound it. And the horror when the tape got all tangled in the machine...

[donald]

Or remember winding it with the back of a pencil
trying to predict with the ffw button(all tape players had various speeds)
having a mixed tape(not labelled)and searching high and low for it(or testing all your randoms)or wearing the tape out some much the play list labelled on the tape wore off.(and you lost the case)
and the worst.....having a tape get stuck in a car tape player lol.....so many things..
My memories-beastie boys/inxs/and the first tape i ever got......2 live crew(the banned addition,with the parent advisory on it...lol)snuck it home and felt so bad assed-prob 7 yrs old.

[HaroldCrump]

Maybe now's the time to sell your cassettes

I will sell them right after my dad sells his 45 rpm records

[the-royal-mail]

Does anyone remember those chrome (crO2) tapes? I had a few of them. Here's a very informative writeup about cassettes including chrome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Cassette

Time to fire up the Walkman. LOL.

[kcowan]

I got rid of all my diskettes and Zip Drive cartridges this month. Even dispensed with some older DVD backups.

[Four Pillars]

Pet rocks anyone?

[brad]

I got rid of all my diskettes and Zip Drive cartridges this month. Even dispensed with some older DVD backups.

We did that last year -- the Shred-It company has periodic free community shredding days, and they had one in our neighbourhood. The machine they use securely shreds zip disks, floppies, CDs, DVDs, etc. so I didn't have to worry about some garbage-sifter coming across my disks and getting data from them. The guy in the truck shredded them while I watched.

[humble_pie]

the Shred-It company has periodic free community shredding days, and they had one in our neighbourhood.

thanks for the useful info