Magnetic Tape

[Azathoth]

I don't know if that's actually what they're called, but I need one of those tapes that they used to play music back in the 90's and maybe the 80s. I need to buy a clean one for sound recording purposes. Where do they sell them? Could I find one in Staples or a pharmacy?

[Caius]

I have one but it is very old. It was sold at a Electronic shop.

[Azathoth]

It turns out they're actually called compact cassetes.

[miotas]

Younguns these days. They are called cassette tapes, and you can still buy them at electronic stores, I know Dick Smith's sells them but that probably doesn't help you much . I think that you can still get them at supermarkets, but I'm not certain on that.

Edit: Too slow.

[Azathoth]

I have them, I even have a machine that can play them. I haven't seen one in use for many years though, and so forgot what they were called.

[Megas Methuselah]

Wow, I thought I was young.

[pevergreen]

You are.

Now, back to acting your age.

[InsaneApache]

I'm old enough to remember playing 78s on a gramophone.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Recording tape. I'm surprised they still sell it. I remember many frustrating and unsuccessful attempts at fixing a jammed/broken 8-track tape. We actually had to buy our music too.

[Subotan]

We actually had to buy our music too.

Haha, don't be ridiculous! Everyone knows that during the eighties, all of the most popular radio stations were simultaneously being recorded by thousands of people all armed with cassette tapes.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Haha, don't be ridiculous! Everyone knows that during the eighties, all of the most popular radio stations were simultaneously being recorded by thousands of people all armed with cassette tapes.

Good old days!

[miotas]

I'm old enough to remember playing 78s on a gramophone.

He he. I used to listen to audio books on records at my nanna's when I was a little fella. The Pony Engine is the only one I can actually remember, but I know there were others as well. My nanna still has the record player at her house.

[Caius]

I need some of those Casette tapes also, for recording interviews... I can't found any.

[rajpoot]

I have more songs on these, than on CDs.....listen to them quite often. The only CD player I have is in my PC. The cassette player on the other hand is far more portable comparing, so I can carry it around. Plus I still have my walkman I'd bought in 99.
Does that make me old?

[Aemilius Paulus]

Blank audio cassettes are sold at my local Wal-Mart... They should have on near NYC, eh? And I am certain there are millions of them online on Amazon, eBay, etc.

[Azathoth]

Blank audio cassettes are sold at my local Wal-Mart... They should have on near NYC, eh? And I am certain there are millions of them online on Amazon, eBay, etc.

Well, I bought a box of them at Staples. The guy who found them for me said "Haven't seen those for a while".

How come a box of 7 costs $8 when 30 DVD+R costs $15? Higher production costs?

[A Very Super Market]

Well, Florida is still the place to go for old folks. Might be more there just to give them some nostalgia.

Then I remember that these aren't even that old. Technology moves a lot faster theses days.

[InsaneApache]

I still got a 16k dialup if anyone is interested.

[ajaxfetish]

How come a box of 7 costs $8 when 30 DVD+R costs $15? Higher production costs?

Yeah, I think so. An optical disc doesn't have much in the way of moving parts, and they're dirt cheap to mass produce. Cassettes are a little more complicated.

Ajax

[Ibrahim]

cassettes?

they aren't that old to me-it was common when I was in kuwait-in fact, right up till I left it in 2006. also had an Old phonograph from the 70's

@I.Apache: I use to have that in Kuwait too

I also grew up with a lot of things people my age in the US have no clue about...

I'm also late to the modern technology: didn't get a laptop or mobile phone till I was 17, and I didn't know what a computer even was until I was 9. didn't learn to use one till I was 12. so I have a clear idea what it was like before the information age....

my how much has changed

[miotas]

cassettes?

they aren't that old to me-it was common when I was in kuwait-in fact, right up till I left it in 2006. also had an Old phonograph from the 70's

@I.Apache: I use to have that in Kuwait too

I also grew up with a lot of things people my age in the US have no clue about...

I'm also late to the modern technology: didn't get a laptop or mobile phone till I was 17, and I didn't know what a computer even was until I was 9. didn't learn to use one till I was 12. so I have a clear idea what it was like before the information age....

my how much has changed

I was using cassettes in my car up until 2 years ago, then my uncle wrote off his car and I scavenged his cd player and speakers before he sent it to the wreckers. My family didn't even have a computer until I was 12(2000), we first got internet(dial-up) when I was 14(2002) and I got my first mobile and laptop in my final year of school when I was 18(2006)

[||Lz3||]

Heh, I remember side A and B on those things. I used to listen to kid songs in them.

@miotas, I got my first computer when I was 10 (2001). I still remember it.

Intel celeron (I don't remember the exact specs)
8Mb graphics card (maybe 16)
128Mb RAM

Good age of empires 2 times

[Megas Methuselah]

Heh, I remember side A and B on those things. I used to listen to kid songs in them.

@miotas, I got my first computer when I was 10 (2001). I still remember it.

Intel celeron (I don't remember the exact specs)
8Mb graphics card (maybe 16)
128Mb RAM

Good age of empires 2 times

Our old one (Windows 95) had 16mb graphics card, and 32 mb of RAM, IIRC. It was enough for the first Age of Empires, but not enough for the 2nd one. It was also, praise God, good enough for Caesar II (oh, I love that game) and Lost Eden. Good times.

I thoroughly miss my simple, carefree childhood.

[InsaneApache]

My first 'puter......what am I going to do with all that memory?