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So! Feel old...?

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  • #62
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    whirlpool wrote: »
    I wasn't asked to make it work. How could I work something I'd never used before? My reaction, like everyone else's reaction, would have been "I don't know how to work this." The end. Not OMG SO FUNNY LOOK AT ME I'M SO FUNNY OMG HAHAHAHAHAA.

    At the very least you'd expect most children to reconcile the round record with the hole and the round platter with the spike. There's generally an ON switch and after that there's only a couple of movable parts. Even by accident a kid would probably end up dropping the needle in the groove.


  • #63
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Luciano Bumpy Poplar wrote: »
    Did you also get PTSD for Christmas or something?

    Old man new technology


  • #64
    monkeysnapper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭monkeysnapper


    I always remember my mum would buy cheap battery's and then the songs would go really ssssllllloooowwwww .

    I remember getting my 1st Walkman , I was so excited . I also remember the day I found out about mp3 s and being able to put thousands of tunes on it. I thought it was a joke .
    I love music


  • #65
    That_Girl_ Is_ A_Cowboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 286 ✭✭That_Girl_ Is_ A_Cowboy


    I'm much too young to feel this damn old.

    I got my first walkman when I was 10 or 11 from santa and I also got a garth brooks tape from santy that same year.


  • #66
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    That_Girl_ Is_ A_Cowboy wrote: »
    I'm much too young to feel this damn old.

    I got my first walkman when I was 10 or 11 from santa and I also got a garth brooks tape from santy that same year.

    I got Michael Jackson - BAD, and my brother got Meatloaf lol.


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  • #67
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,129 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    I'd spend so long rewinding and fast forwarding on my Walkman that I hardly got to listen to any songs before the batteries died.

    It's crazy the technology kids these days are growing up with. My 2 year old can use my ipad and phone no probs, opens up apps and knows how to skype etc. Meanwhile, my grandmother struggles to send a text!


  • #68
    bumper234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭bumper234


    Saw someone at the bus stop yesterday with a discman in her pocket and thought "wow get with the times" forgot i used to have a walkman :D


  • #69
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    Sabrina the Teenage Witch is 38 years old today...

    ...yep.


  • #70
    shrewdness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,709 ✭✭✭shrewdness


    LizzieJones wrote: »
    Used to tape songs off the radio so I wouldn't need to buy the whole cassette. Good times. :)

    And there was the vital skill of stopping the recording before the DJ started talking at the end of songs.


  • #71
    stefan idiot jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    You used to get a whole album on each side of a tape with a couple of bonus songs to fill it up, until Metallica brought out Master Of Puppets which was over 45 minutes long.

    Rocket Queen was another song that you couldn't fit in.


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  • #72
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    strobe wrote: »
    Sabrina the Teenage Witch is 38 years old today...

    ...yep.

    Ah, ****e:(


  • #73
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    shrewdness wrote: »
    And there was the vital skill of stopping the recording before the DJ started talking at the end of songs.

    Or your Mam called you from the next room. :o


  • #74
    bumper234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭bumper234


    Muise... wrote: »
    Or your Mam called you from the next room. :o

    Someone walking into the room and trying to shush them before they speak :D


  • #75
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    bumper234 wrote: »
    Someone walking into the room and trying to shush them before they speak :D

    Or my lovely little sister................... 'MAAAAAAAAMMMMYYY - SHE'S NOT STUDYING - SHE'S LISTENING TO THE RADIOOOOOOOOOO!'.

    Forbidden little witch she was. :D


  • #76
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,484 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Grayson wrote: »


    TDK 90's :)

    Posh b@stard.


  • #77
    Mam of 4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,487 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    Is it sad to say i still have some of my compilation tapes ?? ok, haven't listened to them in years, god only knows what Amazing songs are on them ha!!

    https://forumofgames.com/



  • #78
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Mam of 4 wrote: »
    Is it sad to say i still have some of my compilation tapes ?? ok, have listened to them in years, god only knows what Amazing songs are on them ha!!

    I still play some of mine. I love the faded ink on the sleeves, in the handwriting of boys who were so achingly gorgeous and important to me at the time. :)


  • #79
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    or when computer games came on cassette tapes..and you had to load them, which usually took what seemed like hours, only for the dread message "Loading Failed" to come up right at the end...shyte...rewind, retry....and another hour was gone..turn it off after playing, and guess what, you had to reload it again to play again..BBC Micro - "the rolls royce of computers.."


  • #80
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    Eardrum-piercing noise when loading too. The keyboard, an old crap portable TV and a little cassette-player all hooked up... just for a game of Boulderdash.
    Good times.


  • #81
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    Eardrum-piercing noise when loading too. The keyboard, an old crap portable TV and a little cassette-player all hooked up... just for a game of Boulderdash.Ghouls or Manic Miner
    Good times.

    FYP :D


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  • #82
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    banie01 wrote: »
    well back in my day ''@'' was shorthand for ''approximately'' ;)
    Its not all about the tagging :P

    back in my day @ was something that was stamped on ecstacy pills :cool:


  • #83
    losthorizon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    knarkypants wrote: »
    Nah Vinyl was the best. ;)

    Sorry ! Vinyl is the best.


  • #84
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    'Oh my granddad has one of those!'

    Go **** yourself kid.


  • #85
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    but i am old and it is not a state of mind as my bones assure me.

    my first records were the big hard ones. no tv etc either.

    never listen to music now but the last i had were cds.

    each generation to its own..

    before records there was live music and families were more together.


  • #86
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    Grayson wrote: »
    especially when they were used to load computer games :)

    ah the old commodore 64 that takes me back happy times


  • #87
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Anyone remember this freak? Feel older now? This is what used to pass for children's entertainment. This and Wanderly Wagon *shudders

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auEK97OIwdE


  • #88
    Dax Fat Scarecrow
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Dax Fat Scarecrow


    haw haw haw I feel so judged right now




    yes
    yes you are


  • #89
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    Anyone remember this freak? Feel older now? This is what used to pass for children's entertainment. This and Wanderly Wagon *shudders

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auEK97OIwdE

    Don't diss the Bosco!!!!

    Anyone remember about 10 years ago when UCD students apparently kidnapped Bosco? :D


  • #90
    Kerrydude1981
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,192 ✭✭✭✭Kerrydude1981


    Was telling my niece and nephew about recording songs off the radio back in the day

    That went well,I had to leave,they got a great laugh out of it.


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  • #91
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Kids are a bit thick though. I remember my father in law taking his grandkids from Essex to Manchester to see Man utd's football club, the grandson was a huge man u fan. Before they left the house the grandson, who was about 12 asked if they had McDonalds up there:confused::eek:


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