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   simpsonfan2 said, 12 months ago

   Records? We had wax cylinders and we liked it.
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   Plods with Beer ( did I mention beer? ) said, 12 months ago

   @simpsonfan2

   Especially on hot days when you could change the tune… that was a hoot.
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   AshburnStadium said, 12 months ago

   This has been a meme that has been going around Facebook. I remember the even-earlier metal adapters. Search Google Images for “Webster-Chicago 45 adapters” and you’ll see what I had as a kid (which my mom had obtained in the 1950s).
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   J. Short said, 12 months ago

   It’s a plastic version of a Ninja star.
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   Dani Rice said, 12 months ago

   Try to explain to a kid about “clockwise”.
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   david_42 said, 12 months ago

   We had an adapter for the record changer. It was a pain to get lined up properly, so generally it just stayed there so my sisters could play their records.
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   d p said, 12 months ago

   don’t forget those reel to reel tape players.
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   James Maxwell said, 12 months ago

   dont know them, I still have a 78 RPM record printed in 1907.
   and what is worse I have a record player that will play it.
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   hippogriff said, 12 months ago

   45s were doily disks and the inserts were doily ’dapters. When we tried to get a 78 turntable, the reaction was like we had asked for a cylinder player. We finally found one though.
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    knitkitty said, 12 months ago

    I was at a school, this little kid was talking non-stop, and I said she’d been vaccinated with a Victrola needle. Please note, above comic is NOT so far fetched…
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 12 months ago

    The earliest were made of paper then aluminum and then wax. The vinyl for records then magnetic tape and now CDs.
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    Terri Brittingham said, 12 months ago

    Remember the record player in a suitcase?
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    tigre1 said, 12 months ago

    Some of the cds I bought to replace some of the tape cassettes I’d played for about ten years…have become unusable after a couple of years…and you can’t re-wind, track back, etc…useless cds! what a screwup, with cassette tape you could rewind, find something, record cheaply…AND the sound wasn’t digital, which you can HEAR the crappiness and inaccuracy…ooops…you probably never used cassettes, and you probably CAN’T hear how BAD digital sound is…
    sorry.

    So I dug out the cassettes…all these years, lying in a dusty drawer…they’re FINE.

    I’ve started re-recording my cds to cassettes…it’s the only way to make them usable.
    And to keep them around longer than a couple of years.

    Capitalism and the greedy jerkoffs who have got control of it have ruined a lot of very fine methods and formats…planned obselescence (whoops. a Misspelling. Sorry)
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    Yer Huckleberry said, 12 months ago

    @d p

    Wow. I first heard Doors and Morrison sing “Light My Fire” on one. Never forgot the sound quality.
    Two speed 1 7/8 and 7 1/4 I believe. The faster speed was great.
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    Yer Huckleberry said, 12 months ago

    @Yer Huckleberry

    I’m talking reel to reel.
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