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New inventions in our lifetime........
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: David925 on October 08, 2006, 09:45:25 pm ---Cable Television?
When I was a kid, Indianapolis only had 4 television stations: ABC (Channel 6), CBS (Channel 8 ), NBC (Channel 13) and Channel 4, which was a local channel. Many people couldn't pick up Channel 4 very well. The reception was very bad in parts of the city, and if you wanted to watch Channel 4 you had to point the tv antenna in the correct spot or wrap some foil around it (or stick a coat hanger in it). Later, Channel 20 (PBS) came to the city, and we had 5 channels.
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People risked their necks mounting TV antennas on the roof. We had an electronic device called a "tenna-rotor" that actually rotated the antenna up on the roof to change its direction to improve reception.
Pipedream:
It's crazy what has changed at my radio station during the last ten years or so. When I began to work there, the editing of audio material was still real handicraft, and "to cut" meant really just this: cut the audio tape with a little knife and then glue it together again at the place you wanted. I remember working through whole nights at one of these machines in our studio:
Today, it's all digital:
In fact, I can do a lot of stuff with a relatively cheap software at home. It's gotten easier and more comfortable in a lot of ways, but sometimes I still miss the "good old times" when you didn't have to sit in front of a computer all day...
:)
Jeff Wrangler:
When I was about ten years old, my parents got me a portable reel-to-reel tape recorder.
And anybody else around here, besides Leslie and me, old enough to remember 8-track tapes? ;D
moremojo:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on October 09, 2006, 05:57:40 pm ---When I was about ten years old, my parents got me a portable reel-to-reel tape recorder.
And anybody else around here, besides Leslie and me, old enough to remember 8-track tapes? ;D
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Jeff, I remember 8-track tapes, but didn't own any. My sister, three and a half years older than me, owned at least one (an Art Garfunkle album [or tape, rather], of all things).
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on October 09, 2006, 05:57:40 pm ---And anybody else around here, besides Leslie and me, old enough to remember 8-track tapes? ;D
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<raising hand>
I do. That was one of the most God awful inventions in all of history. >:(
If you wanted to listen to a song again, you had to wait until all the other songs on the track played (normally three or four). If you hadn't lost interest by then, you would have to fight with the machine to keep it from changing to the next track.
Yep. I remember the 8-tracks all right.
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