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Kids and vintage technology

Kids from a school in Québec, Canada, are in front of 80s 90s generation technologies have to find what are those
objects used for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSHeKfZG7c

Cheers Don...

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On 2011-01-18 05:29, Don McKenzie wrote:
Kids and vintage technology

Kids from a school in Québec, Canada, are in front of 80s 90s generation
technologies have to find what are those objects used for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSHeKfZG7c

Cheers Don...

==============


I've never seen that square yellow box with the plunger on top either. I
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think it said it was an 8-track cartridge player. I've heard of 8-track
cartridges, but never seen a player like that.

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Long-time resident of Adelaide, South Australia,
which probably influences my opinions.
 
On Jan 18, 9:49 am, annily <ann...@annily.invalid> wrote:
On 2011-01-18 05:29, Don McKenzie wrote:

Kids and vintage technology

Kids from a school in Québec, Canada, are in front of 80s 90s generation
technologies have to find what are those objects used for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSHeKfZG7c

Cheers Don...

=============
I've never seen that square yellow box with the plunger on top either. I
think it said it was an 8-track cartridge player. I've heard of 8-track
cartridges, but never seen a player like that.

--
Long-time resident of Adelaide, South Australia,
which probably influences my opinions.
Click to expand...

I have not seen one like this either only front loading ones, they
were also used in cars.

IIRC the tape was in an endless loop, and the button (probably the
plunger)
was used to change tracks. The tape was fed out of the centre of
single the tape reel,
past the heads, pinch roller then back onto the outside of the roll.
The tape reel free wheeled, it wasn't driven from the centre like on a
normal cassette


There were 4 "sides" - 8 tracks (4 stereo pairs.)
I don't know if you could fast forward but you definitely cannot
rewind.

The button would step the tape heads down across the tape to access a
different stereo pair of tracks
when it reached the bottom it would jump back up and start over when
the button was pressed. Due to the
size of this button, it probably was mechanically stepped. Some more
expensive units were done using a solenoid driven
step mechanism. IIRC some of them had buttons marked 1,2,3,4 and
pressing them would take it automatically to the desired
track rather than having to press a single button multiple times.
 
On Jan 18, 4:59 am, Don McKenzie <5...@2.5A> wrote:
Kids and vintage technology

Kids from a school in Québec, Canada, are in front of 80s 90s generation technologies have to find what are those
objects used for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSHeKfZG7c

Cheers Don...

=============
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"I'd buy that for a Dollar!".
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj9OEmUr0F8

You could also take a look at this if you want to feel old ;)
 
On 2011-01-18 12:48, kreed wrote:
On Jan 18, 9:49 am, annily<ann...@annily.invalid> wrote:
On 2011-01-18 05:29, Don McKenzie wrote:

Kids and vintage technology

Kids from a school in Québec, Canada, are in front of 80s 90s generation
technologies have to find what are those objects used for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSHeKfZG7c

Cheers Don...

==============

I've never seen that square yellow box with the plunger on top either. I
think it said it was an 8-track cartridge player. I've heard of 8-track
cartridges, but never seen a player like that.

--
Long-time resident of Adelaide, South Australia,
which probably influences my opinions.


I have not seen one like this either only front loading ones, they
were also used in cars.
Click to expand...
I've only seen 8-track players in cars. Can't recall any standalone ones.


--
Long-time resident of Adelaide, South Australia,
which probably influences my opinions.
 
On 18/01/2011 4:54 PM, annily wrote:
On 2011-01-18 12:48, kreed wrote:
On Jan 18, 9:49 am, annily<ann...@annily.invalid> wrote:
On 2011-01-18 05:29, Don McKenzie wrote:

Kids and vintage technology

Kids from a school in Québec, Canada, are in front of 80s 90s
generation
technologies have to find what are those objects used for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSHeKfZG7c

Cheers Don...

==============

I've never seen that square yellow box with the plunger on top either. I
think it said it was an 8-track cartridge player. I've heard of 8-track
cartridges, but never seen a player like that.

--
Long-time resident of Adelaide, South Australia,
which probably influences my opinions.


I have not seen one like this either only front loading ones, they
were also used in cars.


I've only seen 8-track players in cars. Can't recall any standalone ones.


I had one way back when the daily was an hk327
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On 2011-01-17, Don McKenzie <5V@2.5A> wrote:
Kids and vintage technology

Kids from a school in QuĂŠbec, Canada, are in front of 80s 90s generation technologies have to find what are those
objects used for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSHeKfZG7c

Cheers Don...
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The black kid had the turntable figured out, doing a little scratching!



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On 2011-01-17, Don McKenzie <5V@2.5A> wrote:

Kids and vintage technology

Kids from a school in Québec, Canada, are in front of 80s 90s generation
technologies have to find what are those
objects used for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSHeKfZG7c

Cheers Don...


The black kid had the turntable figured out, doing a little scratching!
Click to expand...

Enough stereotyping please!
 
On Jan 18, 6:27 pm, Jasen Betts <ja...@xnet.co.nz> wrote:
On 2011-01-17, Don McKenzie <5...@2.5A> wrote:



Kids and vintage technology

Kids from a school in QuĂŠbec, Canada, are in front of 80s 90s generation technologies have to find what are those
objects used for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSHeKfZG7c

Cheers Don...

The black kid had the turntable figured out, doing a little scratching!

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They should have figured that one out easily, there are plenty of
music videos in recent years that
show them using turntables and scratching :)
 
On Jan 18, 4:54 pm, annily <ann...@annily.invalid> wrote:
On 2011-01-18 12:48, kreed wrote:



On Jan 18, 9:49 am, annily<ann...@annily.invalid>  wrote:
On 2011-01-18 05:29, Don McKenzie wrote:

Kids and vintage technology

Kids from a school in Qu bec, Canada, are in front of 80s 90s generation
technologies have to find what are those objects used for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSHeKfZG7c

Cheers Don...

=============
I've never seen that square yellow box with the plunger on top either. I
think it said it was an 8-track cartridge player. I've heard of 8-track
cartridges, but never seen a player like that.

--
Long-time resident of Adelaide, South Australia,
which probably influences my opinions.

I have not seen one like this either only front loading ones, they
were also used in cars.

I've only seen 8-track players in cars. Can't recall any standalone ones.
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Tandy (radio shack) used to have them in their catalogue even in the
late 1970's,
but I never owned one as even earlier on it was clear that the Compact
Cassette
that we still? use now was the way that the consumer were going.
Lack of rewind and Fast Forward ? probably didn't help.

Can't remember if standalone 8 track units recorded as well, don't see
why they wouldn't be able to.

Tandy's units may have gone under the brand "Realistic" but am not
sure now.



--
Long-time resident of Adelaide, South Australia,
which probably influences my opinions.
Click to expand...
 
I've only seen 8-track players in cars. Can't recall any standalone ones.

Can't remember if standalone 8 track units recorded as well, don't see why
they wouldn't be able to.
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Stand-alone decks were quite common. Back in the '70's I had a couple of
8-track decks which could record.

Akai had a high-end open-reel deck with an 8-track in the side for dubbing
your favorite tracks.

....... Zim


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