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Jun. 5th, 2007 08:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smg01Driving to work this morning one of the DJs on the radio was talking about how the Smithsonian has consigned the cassette tape to the archive section (I think it was archive it was some other section). The upshot being that the cassette has essentially landed on the dustbin of history.
The other DJ was saying that her frustration with tapes had always been that you couldn't skip tracks. You were stuck with the fastforward and rewind button. (I remember those days. "oh! not quite far enough." "Oops, too far!") That led into the discussion of 8 tracks and a disagreement between them as to whether you could select tracks and/or rewind and fast forward. A few people called in with their input. The consensus wound up being that there were tracks, but there were 3 or 4 songs on each track. So you could skip to other parts of the 8 track, but you couldn't skip to specific songs. That tracks with my memory too. There was less consensus about whether you could rewind and fastforward them.
Aww, good old 8 tracks. Another item on the dustbin of history. For some reason, they always make me feel fondly nostalgic.
The other DJ was saying that her frustration with tapes had always been that you couldn't skip tracks. You were stuck with the fastforward and rewind button. (I remember those days. "oh! not quite far enough." "Oops, too far!") That led into the discussion of 8 tracks and a disagreement between them as to whether you could select tracks and/or rewind and fast forward. A few people called in with their input. The consensus wound up being that there were tracks, but there were 3 or 4 songs on each track. So you could skip to other parts of the 8 track, but you couldn't skip to specific songs. That tracks with my memory too. There was less consensus about whether you could rewind and fastforward them.
Aww, good old 8 tracks. Another item on the dustbin of history. For some reason, they always make me feel fondly nostalgic.
