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 This message originally sent in reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sunday, October 21, 2007 at 2:18 AM EST. Did you miss a message? Well, don't. http://www.mail-archive.com/talk2%40andrelouis.com/ has it for you. Never miss a Talk2 message again.
