Our children will never know the link between the two. Can't you?

14 years ago

Actually 2 links.
1. pop out the little tab to prevent future recording over what is on the tape.
2. turning the spindle on either side to advance the tape - or to pull it back into the cassette.

I must have several hundred blank c-42, c-62, and c-92 in the basement along with a 3-up high speed duplicator. Absolutely useless today.

I hate to send them to the local landfill. Hmmm, maybe I can find a museum to take them for a display of antique audio equipment.

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14 years ago

Originally Posted by Don Schenk

Actually 2 links.
1. pop out the little tab to prevent future recording over what is on the tape.
2. turning the spindle on either side to advance the tape - or to pull it back into the cassette.

I must have several hundred blank c-42, c-62, and c-92 in the basement along with a 3-up high speed duplicator. Absolutely useless today.

I hate to send them to the local landfill. Hmmm, maybe I can find a museum to take them for a display of antique audio equipment.

:-Don

WHO KNOWS? I have HUNDREDS of cassette tapes! EVEN when CDs first came out(The FIRST viable indicator that SOMEONE was starting to make an idea that IBM PROMISED people, like my father, would have been done DECADES ago, VIABLE!), it seemed that tapes were OK! THEN someone "invented" DAT, and some idiot said it was "TOO GOOD", but it was JUNK! They STILL seemed OK! It wasn't until the price of players came down that CD seemed viable. THEN, after they added writing, cassettes were GONERS from day one!

BTW DVDs are CLOSER to what my dad was promised, but it is still a LONG way away. As I recall, IBM said a few years back that it was merely a dream. And flash rom has made it all but senseless ANYWAY!

BTW the pencil can ALSO wrte on the label.

Steve

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Kay King

14 years ago

The pencil will still be a viable tool and be sold and used...probably long after the media we use today is relegated to "old fashioned".

Our children don't need to know some things. I know years ago there were quill pens and inkpots - don't need to know how to use them.

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Raja Kamil

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Kay King

The pencil will still be a viable tool and be sold and used...probably long after the media we use today is relegated to "old fashioned".

Our children don't need to know some things. I know years ago there were quill pens and inkpots - don't need to know how to use them.

I'm posting this, not to showing what our kids need to know and what not, it just to remind us about our old days, which happen to be, some of us, already forgot who were we. ( I mean, so proud till never look at people down)

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seasoned

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Kay King

The pencil will still be a viable tool and be sold and used...probably long after the media we use today is relegated to "old fashioned".

Our children don't need to know some things. I know years ago there were quill pens and inkpots - don't need to know how to use them.

At one point, in the early seventies, my school had a LOT of kids with the inkpot type pens, except they used cartridges!

Steve

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Dennis Gaskill 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Don Schenk

I must have several hundred blank c-42, c-62, and c-92 in the basement along with a 3-up high speed duplicator. Absolutely useless today.

Yep, and I've got a couple hundred blank floppy disks, too.
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Raja Kamil

14 years ago

hehe

During my young time, where I hardly find any money to buy batteries for my walkman, I do rewind the cassette manually using pens or pencils

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Patrician

14 years ago

One thing that has improved - remember the old 'diskettes' - not the little ones - the big, truly 'floppy' disks? Not good for anything.

At least with CDs I have a lifetime collection of coasters. When they get dirty I just replace them. The 'jewel cases' that they started coming in from AOHell postal mail spam are also re-usable - I also have a collection that I can use for CDs/DVDs that are 'burned'.

(with that said I have a lifetime supply of blank CD/DVDs that I will probably never use.)

casettes - bad memory - still have a lot of good music on those and they will likely disintegrate someday (has happened already to some).

bad memory because sometimes I am too frugal for my own good. I tried to re-use one and it wasn't originally blank - it had been some music album - tried to record over it and it broke my tape to tape recorder. You'd think it would just break the tape if I was doing something anti-copyright unintentionally. But no, it broke the tape recorder.

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Steven Wagenheim

14 years ago

There is absolutely no link between a cassette tape and a pencil or writing
implement.

I still have to write checks for some things.

Kids still use pens and pencils in school.

I seriously doubt I will ever be able to walk into an electronics store and get
a dedicated cassette recorder again.

Yeah, you can still find an occasional Drug Fair that sells cassette tapes, but
you really have to hunt for them.

But a true connection between those two items?

Sorry, I'm not seeing it.

Maybe I'm just dense today.

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Raja Kamil

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim

There is absolutely no link between a cassette tape and a pencil or writing
implement.

I still have to write checks for some things.

Kids still use pens and pencils in school.

I seriously doubt I will ever be able to walk into an electronics store and get
a dedicated cassette recorder again.

Yeah, you can still find an occasional Drug Fair that sells cassette tapes, but
you really have to hunt for them.

But a true connection between those two items?

Sorry, I'm not seeing it.

Maybe I'm just dense today.

hehe...... not everyone knows the links between pencil and cassette

If you grow up with cassettes, then you must know :p

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Steven Wagenheim

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Raja Kamil

hehe...... not everyone knows the links between pencil and cassette

If you grow up with cassettes, then you must know :p

My friend, I grew up BEFORE cassettes. I grew up with 78 RPM records.

Sorry, still not getting it.

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Raja Kamil

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Patrician

I missed it too - I thought it was a comparison of communicating via pencil (writing) and recording (like with a dictation machine).

But I think his point is you use the pencil to rewind the cassette tape? (if so I don't get why you do this? unless it has a glitch and needs to be manually rewound - and if so yes, a pencil works)

Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim

My friend, I grew up BEFORE cassettes. I grew up with 78 RPM records.

Sorry, still not getting it.

Growing up at boarding school never were too easy for me as a kid.
I got no money to buy battery to listening to Walkman. (portable cassette player).

Thus, I had to save the battery. So, instead of rewind using the cassette player, I will take out the cassette and rewind it manually. hahaha....

I missed that moment

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Raja Kamil

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim

There is absolutely no link between a cassette tape and a pencil or writing
implement.

I still have to write checks for some things.

Kids still use pens and pencils in school.

I seriously doubt I will ever be able to walk into an electronics store and get
a dedicated cassette recorder again.

Yeah, you can still find an occasional Drug Fair that sells cassette tapes, but
you really have to hunt for them.

But a true connection between those two items?

Sorry, I'm not seeing it.

Maybe I'm just dense today.

In case you still don't see how it links together, perhaps this video could tell you. haha.....

Rewinding cassette with pen. - YouTube

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Steven Wagenheim 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Raja Kamil

In case you still don't see how it links together, perhaps this video could tell you. haha.....

Rewinding cassette with pen. - YouTube

Yeah, well I never did infantile things like that. :rolleyes:
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- Raja Kamil 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim
  
  Yeah, well I never did infantile things like that. :rolleyes:
  
  I rather do that 'childish' thing instead of skipping my lunch
  
  Well, I was a kid at that time, and doing that, kind of having some fun
  
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  Steven Wagenheim 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Raja Kamil
  
  I rather do that 'childish' thing instead of skipping my lunch
  
  Well, I was a kid at that time, and doing that, kind of having some fun
  
  Well then yeah, you're right...that's something our kids will NEVER do.
  
  Can't tell you how thankful I am for it. :rolleyes:
  
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  Raja Kamil 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim
  
  Well then yeah, you're right...that's something our kids will NEVER do.
  
  Can't tell you how thankful I am for it. :rolleyes:
  
  hehe....true, you are so lucky. Growing and leaving in a rich family.
  
  Well, hopefully you don't find a hard time to tell your kids to appreciate things .
  
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  hehe....true, you are so lucky. Growing and leaving in a rich family.
  
  Well, hopefully you don't find a hard time to tell your kids to appreciate things .
  
  I think my daughter appreciates things just fine. We brought her up to know
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14 years ago

Originally Posted by Patrician

One thing that has improved - remember the old 'diskettes' - not the little ones - the big, truly 'floppy' disks? Not good for anything.

At least with CDs I have a lifetime collection of coasters. When they get dirty I just replace them. The 'jewel cases' that they started coming in from AOHell postal mail spam are also re-usable - I also have a collection that I can use for CDs/DVDs that are 'burned'.

(with that said I have a lifetime supply of blank CD/DVDs that I will probably never use.)

casettes - bad memory - still have a lot of good music on those and they will likely disintegrate someday (has happened already to some).

bad memory because sometimes I am too frugal for my own good. I tried to re-use one and it wasn't originally blank - it had been some music album - tried to record over it and it broke my tape to tape recorder. You'd think it would just break the tape if I was doing something anti-copyright unintentionally. But no, it broke the tape recorder.

Pat that reminded me of when I was into hunting. When I wanted to sight my rifle in, I'd go to the post office and grab all the AOL CD's from their display. They made great targets

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Patrician

14 years ago

I missed it too - I thought it was a comparison of communicating via pencil (writing) and recording (like with a dictation machine).

But I think his point is you use the pencil to rewind the cassette tape? (if so I don't get why you do this? unless it has a glitch and needs to be manually rewound - and if so yes, a pencil works)

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14 years ago

Originally Posted by Patrician

I missed it too - I thought it was a comparison of communicating via pencil (writing) and recording (like with a dictation machine).

But I think his point is you use the pencil to rewind the cassette tape? (if so I don't get why you do this? unless it has a glitch and needs to be manually rewound - and if so yes, a pencil works)

If I need to rewind my cassette or set it to the spot where the actual
recorded section began, I used my finger.

The only thing I did, in relation to a cassette, was use the pencil to write
down what was on the cassette on those stupid labels they gave us to stick
on them.

Sorry, it's a stretch to say that there is any real link between a cassette
and a pencil.

That would be like saying there is a link between my fridge and a pencil
because I can scribble all over it if I like.

Like I said, maybe I'm just deliberately being dense or obtuse today but the
cassette/pencil thing is a real stretch...IMO.

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Patrician

14 years ago

Ah-hah! Now I see! Good idea.

I buy rechargeable batteries now because everything from keyboard, mouse, toothbrush, camera, remote, etc are all batteries. I went through a ton until I bought the rechargeable ones with the charger.

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talfighel

14 years ago

The link between the 2?

The pencil is to write down what you want to tell your mind, and the cassette is for recording it.

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Kurt

14 years ago

I used to use a pencil to rewind a cassette tape...Actually a Bic pen with the cap on works better. Sometimes the tape deck would chew up the tape and there would be tape exposed and I didn't want to put the cassette in the deck with a bunch of tape exposed.

Other times the tape would break and good brands like Memorex had little screws so you could disassemble the cassette. A little scotch tape would fix it, an exacto knife to tidy-up the splice and I'd use the pen to rewind it.

To be honest, I can't believe anyone that had cassettes didn't have a deck eat one and have a mess of tape that needed to be rewound without using the deck?

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14 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

I used to use a pencil to rewind a cassette tape...Actually a Bic pen with the cap on works better. Sometimes the tape deck would chew up the tape and there would be tape exposed and I didn't want to put the cassette in the deck with a bunch of tape exposed.

Other times the tape would break and good brands like Memorex had little screws so you could disassemble the cassette. A little scotch tape would fix it, an exacto knife to tidy-up the splice and I'd use the pen to rewind it.

To be honest, I can't believe anyone that had cassettes didn't have a deck eat one and have a mess of tape that needed to be rewound without using the deck?

Kurt, when that happened, I just threw the darn tape away.

Sometimes the cassette player with it.

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Dennis Gaskill

14 years ago

Here's another link between the two -- when you recorded your own tapes you had to write the songs on the label if you wanted to know what was on the tape. I scrawled on an awful lot of song titles onto cassette labels in my day.

@Kurt - Yup, I still have cassettes held together with scotch tape. Mostly the recordings of my own music so I can't just go buy a new CD of the same music. Anybody wanna buy an old Fostex 4-track cassette recorder? I'm sure I still have it around somewhere.

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casdir

14 years ago

I still remember the good old days of cassettes, floppy disks, big glass TVs, and record players lol Future technology is much better though, especially the iPhones