Ed Heckman wrote:
> But recording a record to a tape was _much_ more hassle than recording a
> CD to a MD. You had to have a decent record player and pretty good tape
> recorder. Then you had to make sure you had a tape that was long enough.
> You also had to make sure that one side of a record could fit on one side
> of the tape. Then you had to make sure that you weren't attempting to
> record on the tape leader. And finally, you had to start recording the
> tape and playing the record at the same time--no easy feat. And that was
> just one side that you just recorded. Now you have to flip the tape AND
> record and do it again.
>
Ed you are making the process sound much more complex then it really was. Sure
the MD is much simpler. But so is driving an automatic over a standard shift.
You have to look at things in the prospective of the time that they existed.
It's much easier to install software from a single CD ROM then it was to have to
use 25 floppies. But at the time that was the best that we had.
A record is to a tape what a CD is to an MD. There were many all in one units
where all you had to do was press play on the tape and then start the record.
Also there were auto reverse decks that would automatically record the other
side.
When Fisher a state of the art stereo component company, they even had a Fisher
turntable that played both sides of the album.
Again you can't use 2000 technology to discredit 1960+ state of the art.
When they finally came out with the auto and the internal combustion engine, you
had to go out side and crank the car to get it started. Some times these cranks
would spring back at you and could take your arm off.
But that was better than a bicycle. Then someone invented the electric
starter. So you had a switch on the floor that you had to step on to start the
car (that advance to a button you had to press). Better and safer then the
crank, but you still had a separate key.
Then someone came along and figured out how to combine the starter switch and
the key all in one. Better yet. Now you don't even have to be in your car to
start it.
Things get easier all of the time. But that doesn't mean that recording an
album to tape was so difficult that it couldn't be done by the average person.
Larry
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