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| ▲ | reel2reel 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | My family had a reel-to-reel player, which was definitely not compact. My dad would record tapes from Vietnam and send over the recordings so that our family could hear him. I was afraid to touch it growing up. Instead, I played records on our turntable, and 8-tracks tapes in our car and a couple of 8-track players we had. As a teenager, I played cassettes, which was awesome. Vinyl sounded great and had the best overall experience for things like Christmas records, but cassettes had a warm feel and you could listen to them in your car, a friend’s car, on a boombox, etc. and if you had two tape decks, you could make mix tapes and share them! Or you could just copy a tape for a friend. Those were the days. | | |
| ▲ | jjgreen a day ago | parent [-] | | My dad had an Akai M8 (7" tapes) that I was not allowed to touch under threat of injury, but then he got heavily into quad vinyl and gave the beast to me: The whole Beatles catalogue on 7" tapes, yay! | | |
| ▲ | amypetrik8 17 hours ago | parent [-] | | >My dad had an Akamai M8 My own dad had a Akamai T19 cloud computing system and he would give me all the oggs and flacs and mp3s off the cloud from his Akamai system |
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| ▲ | nine_k 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Unlike a CD, a cassette could fit a pocket. Barely, but still. A CD never could. | | |
| ▲ | nephihaha a day ago | parent [-] | | That is one advantage. Also great in cars if they're not chewed up. Very hard to change CDs in a car. |
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