telecrater says:
I'd go to the library and check out LP (the round black circles called record). I was probably 12 or 13.
You should have embraced 8 track technology.
The year is 1975....I just finished 4 months of gruelling work in the Northwest Territiories. After tuition, etc. I have about $150 to 'waste'. (that's about $1 million in today's money).
My friend Gerard and I at the department store (translated from the French as we were in Montreal)
Me: What did your cassette player cost?
Gerard: I dunno. Got it as a graduation gift. It's ok but sucks next to the new 8 track.
Me: What's an 8 track?
Gerard: The way to go, man. Sounds real cool and comes in quadraphonic.
Me: Ok.Hey, even comes with a speaker.
At home: I take out my one and only new 8 track tape: The Band and Bob Dylan doing a tribute to Woody Guthrie
Me: Hey that sounds good.
Gerard: Must be the quadraphonic, whatever that is. Probably the speaker has 4 woofers or somethinglike that.
Me: Maybe 8 track is 4 tracks each side and that's the quadra part.
Me (later) Hey, there's no reverse on this sohow does it rewind
Gerard: I dunno, but its starting again. You don't have to rewind
Me (after figuring out it can't rewind or fast forward...must play whole tape to get to a song) thats a bummer but at least it's in quadraphonic.
By this time Gerard is less enthused because he doesn't understand English and finds Woody Guthry boring. I'm nore enthused even though I have to play through 55 minutes of music to get to a song. After 2 years I was up to about 5 tapes.