JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for October 09, 2022

The Amsterdam Toy Museum has a display featuring 8-track tapes and a player.

When the outside staff started complaining about pay phones disappearing, our office got us bag-phones. And yes, they came with little suitcases (more like purses.)

Vinyl won’t really be back until they start making 78 rpm children’s records in colored vinyl.

[nerd alert] 8-track wasn’t the first, or the best, tape player for cars. But the inventor was a marketing genius. He offered the record companies 100% of the profit on all tapes sold, so long as they promised to put their entire catalogs on 8 track. He got the money from the machines, which was plenty,. because he was able to convince the car makers to make 8 track the standard.

In the age of streaming wars and the HBO Max Purge, DVDs will be selling like hotcakes for a long time.

Distortion Boxes (8-tracks) and Hisssssettes (in spite of Dolby)

He’s a rebel just for kicks!

I liberated an 8-track player/recorder from a home renovation. Cleaned it up and sold it a few years later. Never tried to see if it worked. Where you find blank 8-track tapes anyway?

Audiophile isn’t a term which goes with 8-track.

Trouble with 8track was that it would stop and reverse in the middle of a song.

Ahhh, nothing like the charm of a slow fade out IN THE MIDDLE of your favorite song. Then, silence, then a KA-CHUNK!, a slow fade up to resume the tune. For about the next eight minutes.

Crunchy’s player and I came out the same year!

Vinyl is analog and like anything else analog it is real NOT a digital reproduction.

Eight track tapes were stupid from the beginning; often a long pause, and a giant click, right in the middle of a track.

Actually the only reason my dad even had his 8-track player was that it came built into the big old stereo console with his turn table. My dad used to have a big reel to reel player too. He must have gotten it in the late 1950s or early 60s, but he still used it up through the late 1980s I remember

Investment to solve the pops & clicks in vinyl.. https://bit.ly/3ErgKev

We got a Tammy Wynette 8 track for one or two songs we liked.

By the time we wore it slap out, we liked all the songs. On to the next…

Joe said “folks”, must have been before her dad died? She was in school then.

Into the the 21st century I shall drag you! Kicking and screaming.

Was at a big box bookstore today, y’know, the place with books and music, and I was looking through the CDs. We had our 8 year old grandson with us. He said “what’s a CD?”

I was crushed.

I have 1999 Dodge Dakota with a cassette player in it!

EVERYTHING beats the sound of an eight-track tape.

There’s being Ol’ Skool and there’s being a Luddite. Crunchy is a Luddite.

I’m surprised an almost 60 year old 8 track still works. The drive band deteriorated within a few years no matter how carefully you would try to protect it.

I’ve got a 45RPM of Tiny Tim singing the theme song from MR>ED.

He cut it for a Dallas,Texas radio station and you had to order it by mail,