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.
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.
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?"
Kids didnt know
Discuss
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.
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.
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.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".
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.
Anyone recognize this and, if so, do you know how to use it?
It's a slide rule. You use it by asking an old person to do it for you.
You never have to worry about changing batteries either.
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:
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:
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?