Cassette tapes

[PPG1]

I am passionate about my Stereo Equipment. All my equipment I purchased while I in the Navy.
I have a Marantz 2270 receiver, Pioneer CT-F900 cassette deck, Technics SL1600 turntable, Pioneer RT1050 Reel to Reel, Marantz HD77 Speakers. My main usage come from my Reel to Reel and Cassettes, You can't beat analog!!!

 

[BrianGSDTexoma]

I think I have a bunch but they all ones I recorded.

 

[zwiller]

When I get the chance to do stuff like this I like to sneak in good covers of classic stuff. There were some GREAT hair metal covers. I still remember my Dad telling me Pretty Woman was a Roy Orbison song NOT Van Halen. Forced me to look at the label!

 

[JLeonard]

I think I have a bunch but they all ones I recorded.

what ya got?

Jim

 

[BrianGSDTexoma]

what ya got?

Jim

I looked in cabinet this morning and there is about 30 years of dust in there. I will clean up later this week and let you know.

 

[JLeonard]

I looked in cabinet this morning and there is about 30 years of dust in there. I will clean up later this week and let you know.

Thanks Brian.

 

[Hijack73]

Saw the Crue with Poison. What a blast that was back in 89 or 90

Still love both.

 

[JLeonard]

Saw the Crue with Poison. What a blast that was back in 89 or 90

Still love both.

Saw Crue in 2015 on their farewell tour. Front row seats. Alice Cooper opened up for them. It was great to be a teenager again for a few hours!!!

Jim

 

[daspyknows]

Been scouring EBay.....Getting her a nice mix off there. Thanks for the replies folks!

Jim

I have an extensive library of live shows (over 20,000). Shoot me a message with a few bands and I can put up some links to download some shows. Not really the genre I record myself ( I was at the Willie Nelson 90th birthday bash all weekend) but I know others who record the current gigs and I have lots from the 60's, 70's, 80's and more recent.

Most, if not all available on EBay can be found for free.

Motley Crue 2000-08-07 Saratoga Springs NY Daud M 16-48 https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/5l6lT9XFEd

 

[bigfurmn]

JLeonard let me check my parents place. I know my brother and i had a ton of cassettes. As long as my dad didn't toss them.

 

[Winterrider]

About the only one I've got left. Lot of memories.

 

[BrianGSDTexoma]

Tried

Jim I just looked on Etsy. Type in cassette tape. Tons of sellers with good prices and great reviews

Tried to send you a message Jake but won't let me.

 

[JLeonard]

Tried

Tried to send you a message Jake but won't let me.

TNJAKE is taking a hiatus from SMF for a while. He and I txt'd a while back and thats what he told me.

Jim

 

[mneeley490]

I, for one, was happy when CD's replaced cassettes. I had too many of them eaten by the players. It was like, "Well, there goes $12."

Loved this line in Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2, after Peter's Cassette Walkman was destroyed:
Kraglin: One of the guys found this. I think it came from Earth.
Peter: What is it?
Kraglin: It's called a Zune. Supposed to hold like, 140 songs.
Peter: 140??? Whoa!!!

 

[02ebz06]

Loved this line in Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2, after Peter's Cassette Walkman was destroyed:
Kraglin: One of the guys found this. I think it came from Earth.
Peter: What is it?
Kraglin: It's called a Zune. Supposed to hold like, 140 songs.
Peter: 140??? Whoa!!!

Reminds me of the first Computer hard drive I bought.
Paid $1100 for and it was a whopping 500MB.
Thought that capacity would last me forever. Hahahahahahahahaha

 

[PPG1]

Paid $1100 for and it was a whopping 500MB.

500MB? Wow you had a big one. My first had a 40MB harddrive with 2MB worth of ram. Window was not around yet so it was all DOS. I believe it took 12 - 5 1/4 flobby disc to load up. lol

 

[daspyknows]

500MB? Wow you had a big one. My first had a 40MB harddrive with 2MB worth of ram. Window was not around yet so it was all DOS. I believe it took 12 - 5 1/4 flobby disc to load up. lol

At my job in college in a bank we bought one of the first PC external hard drives. $8000 in 1983 dollars for a 20 mb drive. That would be a $24000 drive today. On a similar note whenwe recorded concerts on cassette a typical show would cost $7 to $8 on cassette, then using the first digital technology it was $30 for two professional grade Beta tapes. With DAT was down to $24 and now with SD cards it $2 to $3. The recorders are also way cheaper. Sony TCD-5M was about $500, the Sony PCM-F1/SL2000 was $3,000, the Panasonic DAT SV-250 was $2,500 new and the Tsacam recorders I use now are under $200. Same microphones as back then in use at about the same price due to changes in the dollar vs Euro/Deutchmark conversion rates.

 

[mneeley490]

I had an Atari 800 PC, back in the early 80's, with a whopping 128 bytes of RAM, with another 8 KB of memory on cartridges. Coincidentally, it used cassette tapes to load programs, as floppy disks had not come out yet. Sometimes they took up to an hour to load. And man, was it a b***h when the tapes got eaten or messed up. There goes your game or program; $$ down the drain.
Also had a phone cradle to connect with other computers, but that proved to be cumbersome and not worthwhile if you had to call long-distance.

 

[PPG1]

as floppy disks had not come out yet

You must have lived way out in the country because My computer with 5 1/4 FDD was purchased for my business in 1978

 

[JLeonard]

mneeley490 and you were the king of the block!

Jim