Re: The Talk2 List Fw: [B H F] 30 or older

2007-10-21 Thread Patrick Perdue
On 10/21/2007, 12:07:44 AM EDT, rainee chugs a beer, looks up, and says:

 Cassettes were all I had for years until 1995.  I had one little lone CD for
 the longest time.


Yeah, same here. I bought my first CD player that I could call my own
for $30 at a hamfest in early 1996. It was a single Sony component thing, and I 
liked
it loads... until I broke it a few weeks after I bought it, that is. It
made big obvious clicky noises when you did manual track changes, and
the A/B repete function went clicky like a relay on the start and
end-points. It had a remote by which you could program things, and a gap
button that would insert a 1-second gap between tracks, which I thought
was really pointless at the time, especially with gapless cd's, like
Abby Road, which was left in that cd player by it's previous owner. I didn't
know what it was officially called, so I just called it the broke button.

I then bought a crappy Admiral (AKA Emerson) 5-disc changer, which I
still have, and which I'm pretty sure doesn't work anymore, for $89.
Back then, that was a deal, except for the fact that it sucked. Oh well.

By this time, I already had some of my own cd's, but I kept steeling
Ryan's portable to play them, since I didn't have one up until that
point. Until I broke it just after Christmas 1995, Ryan had this big ol' Sound 
Design
portable thing from 1989 that took 8 AA batteries and had a neck strap,
and had a two-hour battery life.
You had to flip a stopper switch to keep the door from flying open as
you moved, since the magnetic spindel on top was the only thing keeping
it together. Absolutely no shock protection at all.
It had a digital clock and a dedicated line out as well as headphone out
though, so it was worth it for that I guess.
Although, people that could read things told me that when I keyed up my
2-meter HT, the clock would go at about 10 times the normal rate.
Fun!

-- -- 
Patrick Perdue (MCP, CNA)
KE4DYI
Greensboro, NC
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Re: The Talk2 List Fw: [B H F] 30 or older

2007-10-21 Thread rainee
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!  Me chugging a beer?  LOLOLOLOLOLOL!  I can't 
stand beer, so the though of you writing that really cracked me up.  I came 
from a family of beer drinkers, and I could never see how people stomached 
the stuff.  I don't mind and occasional glass of wine, although I don't get 
it often, as it's ungodly expensive.



Update your CD collection.  Checkout
http://www.raineemusic.com.
Crazy 'bout beading? Try
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To: talk2 talk2@AndreLouis.COM
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 2:28 AM
Subject: Re: The Talk2 List Fw: [B H F] 30 or older



On 10/21/2007, 12:07:44 AM EDT, rainee chugs a beer, looks up, and says:

Cassettes were all I had for years until 1995.  I had one little lone CD 
for

the longest time.



Yeah, same here. I bought my first CD player that I could call my own
for $30 at a hamfest in early 1996. It was a single Sony component thing, 
and I liked

it loads... until I broke it a few weeks after I bought it, that is. It
made big obvious clicky noises when you did manual track changes, and
the A/B repete function went clicky like a relay on the start and
end-points. It had a remote by which you could program things, and a gap
button that would insert a 1-second gap between tracks, which I thought
was really pointless at the time, especially with gapless cd's, like
Abby Road, which was left in that cd player by it's previous owner. I 
didn't
know what it was officially called, so I just called it the broke 
button.


I then bought a crappy Admiral (AKA Emerson) 5-disc changer, which I
still have, and which I'm pretty sure doesn't work anymore, for $89.
Back then, that was a deal, except for the fact that it sucked. Oh well.

By this time, I already had some of my own cd's, but I kept steeling
Ryan's portable to play them, since I didn't have one up until that
point. Until I broke it just after Christmas 1995, Ryan had this big ol' 
Sound Design

portable thing from 1989 that took 8 AA batteries and had a neck strap,
and had a two-hour battery life.
You had to flip a stopper switch to keep the door from flying open as
you moved, since the magnetic spindel on top was the only thing keeping
it together. Absolutely no shock protection at all.
It had a digital clock and a dedicated line out as well as headphone out
though, so it was worth it for that I guess.
Although, people that could read things told me that when I keyed up my
2-meter HT, the clock would go at about 10 times the normal rate.
Fun!

-- -- 
Patrick Perdue (MCP, CNA)

KE4DYI
Greensboro, NC
website: http://www.pdaudio.net
home: +1(336)698-4417
Mobile phone and SMS: +1(336)509-5583
e-mail and .net messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
aim: noaptiva

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October 21, 2007 at 2:18 AM EST.





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The Talk2 List the Sunday Night Substitute Serenade

2007-10-21 Thread Patrick Perdue
At 6:00 PM EDT tonight, since Randy Gilkey isn't around this week, we
bring you the Sunday Night Substitute Serenade, featuring the Highrize
live set from October 6, 2007, done right here in beautiful? Greensboro
North Carolina. Featuring classic rock and country favorites, and some
really odd mixing/matching techniques, among lots of other things that I
can't be bothered to explain, it's worth a listen.
It won't quite last three hours, but it's longer than two. So, we're
starting an hour early to compensate.
http://tbrn.net:/tbrn.ogg at 6:00 PM EDT! You know you want to!




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