Wolfie Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Satnav I used to be a sales rep in the late 90s & had to have a box of a to z's in the car as well as a couple of road atlases. I used to have to spend bloody ages planning trips & stopping to check city maps. Boycie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1977 Ram Raider Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 3 minutes ago, Wolfie said: Satnav I used to be a sales rep in the late 90s & had to have a box of a to z's in the car as well as a couple of road atlases. I used to have to spend bloody ages planning trips & stopping to check city maps. That reminds me of holidays as a kid with dad planning the route using a giant AA road map. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted January 10, 2021 Author Share Posted January 10, 2021 1 hour ago, Angry Ram said: Social Media - The worse thing ever. The internet is out of control and needs some regulation. It’s also the best thing the internet. And that encapsulates this thread. Swings and Roundabouts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsnip Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 1 hour ago, sage said: And that encapsulates this thread. Swings and Roundabouts. You knew what you were doing when you started this thread. Lighting the touch paper, stirring the pot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted January 10, 2021 Author Share Posted January 10, 2021 21 minutes ago, Beetroot said: You knew what you were doing when you started this thread. Lighting the touch paper, stirring the pot... Parsnip 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mostyn6 Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 MP3 players. remember the walkman? ONE cassette, 10 songs per side (if it was on a blank you’d copied yourself). No track skipping. No rewind, you had to turn over and fast forward! I now have a piece of plastic the size of a lego brick in my car, that has 10000 songs on it! I take a Bluetooth speaker on holiday, my phone has 6000 songs on. Bigger than my vinyl/CD/cassette collection ever was! Add to that, the other main one in this thread, the internet, also allows me access to millions more songs! FlyBritishMidland and angieram 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Git Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 15 hours ago, uttoxram75 said: Packaging. Hard plastic packaging that requires a compendium of Stanley knives to open up at the very real risk of slicing a finger to the bone. Otherwise known as "clamshell" packaging. If the inventor was a bloke, I hope he traps his foreskin in his zip every day for evermore. uttoxram75, Mostyn6 and cstand 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyBritishMidland Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 20 minutes ago, Mostyn6 said: MP3 players. remember the walkman? ONE cassette, 10 songs per side (if it was on a blank you’d copied yourself). No track skipping. No rewind, you had to turn over and fast forward! I now have a piece of plastic the size of a lego brick in my car, that has 10000 songs on it! I take a Bluetooth speaker on holiday, my phone has 6000 songs on. Bigger than my vinyl/CD/cassette collection ever was! Add to that, the other main one in this thread, the internet, also allows me access to millions more songs! And then came auto-reverse...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 5 hours ago, Wolfie said: Satnav I used to be a sales rep in the late 90s & had to have a box of a to z's in the car as well as a couple of road atlases. I used to have to spend bloody ages planning trips & stopping to check city maps. Agree technology on cars generally has massively improved during my time driving - possibly one of the products that tech has affected the most Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 23 minutes ago, Mostyn6 said: MP3 players. remember the walkman? ONE cassette, 10 songs per side (if it was on a blank you’d copied yourself). No track skipping. No rewind, you had to turn over and fast forward! I now have a piece of plastic the size of a lego brick in my car, that has 10000 songs on it! I take a Bluetooth speaker on holiday, my phone has 6000 songs on. Bigger than my vinyl/CD/cassette collection ever was! Add to that, the other main one in this thread, the internet, also allows me access to millions more songs! Eight track cartridge anyone..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Git Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 1 minute ago, Monty said: Agree technology on cars generally has massively improved during my time driving - possibly one of the products that tech has affected the most ..... and now you have to search through umpteen menus just to turn down the heater. Touch screens in cars are a death trap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 4 minutes ago, Grumpy Git said: ..... and now you have to search through umpteen menus just to turn down the heater. Touch screens in cars are a death trap. Ha yeah but at least they start in the morning ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angieram Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 29 minutes ago, Mostyn6 said: MP3 players. remember the walkman? ONE cassette, 10 songs per side (if it was on a blank you’d copied yourself). No track skipping. No rewind, you had to turn over and fast forward! I now have a piece of plastic the size of a lego brick in my car, that has 10000 songs on it! I take a Bluetooth speaker on holiday, my phone has 6000 songs on. Bigger than my vinyl/CD/cassette collection ever was! Add to that, the other main one in this thread, the internet, also allows me access to millions more songs! Totally agree. But I do miss opening a new vinyl album, reading all the sleeve notes, following the lyrics etc. We have best of both worlds these days as vinyl is making somewhat of a comeback. FlyBritishMidland and TimRam 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 49 minutes ago, angieram said: Totally agree. But I do miss opening a new vinyl album, reading all the sleeve notes, following the lyrics etc. We have best of both worlds these days as vinyl is making somewhat of a comeback. Bought a turntable a few months back. It's costing us a bloody fortune! Those vinyl records aren't cheap, never mind speakers etc. Yet nothing beats it, as you say reading sleeve notes, sliding the record out the sleeve, even not being able to skip tracks means you make a commitment to the album, in a way you simply don't get with digital music. I know nothing and angieram 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angieram Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 18 minutes ago, Rev said: Bought a turntable a few months back. It's costing us a bloody fortune! Those vinyl records aren't cheap, never mind speakers etc. Yet nothing beats it, as you say reading sleeve notes, sliding the record out the sleeve, even not being able to skip tracks means you make a commitment to the album, in a way you simply don't get with digital music. Being a sad person, I never threw mine away so still got quite a collection - as @Monty can testify to, when I bored him with many of them on one of our Zoom calls! Rev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GB SPORTS Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 32 minutes ago, Rev said: Bought a turntable a few months back. It's costing us a bloody fortune! Those vinyl records aren't cheap, never mind speakers etc. Yet nothing beats it, as you say reading sleeve notes, sliding the record out the sleeve, even not being able to skip tracks means you make a commitment to the album, in a way you simply don't get with digital music. With vinyl it's an event even down to the smell. Even now when i put it on, the nostalgia overwhelms my senses and start remembering where i bought it who i was with, why i bought it. Going to the Record Cavern in Heanor early every Saturday morning to buy the latest releases was a social event, and whilst the sound quality of digital music might be better you can't beat the crackle when the needle hits the plastic. angieram and Rev 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angieram Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 38 minutes ago, SIXTEEN AGAIN said: With vinyl it's an event even down to the smell. Even now when i put it on, the nostalgia overwhelms my senses and start remembering where i bought it who i was with, why i bought it. Going to the Record Cavern in Heanor early every Saturday morning to buy the latest releases was a social event, and whilst the sound quality of digital music might be better you can't beat the crackle when the needle hits the plastic. For me it was Fox's in Alfreton. And no, that isn't me in my pinny! Carl Sagan and GB SPORTS 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 57 minutes ago, angieram said: Being a sad person, I never threw mine away so still got quite a collection - as @Monty can testify to, when I bored him with many of them on one of our Zoom calls! Not bored at all @angierameven thinking about maybe getting a deck myself - and playing some of my few remaining albums picked up a tv after repair at a local workshop a few months ago the place was stacked out with decks and turntables - what’s with all these I asked the engineer, gone crazy during lockdown he said lots of people getting the old hi-fi out of the attic and recommissioned... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 1 hour ago, angieram said: For me it was Fox's in Alfreton. And no, that isn't me in my pinny! record shops like these often had acoustic booths/hoods where you could listen to a requested track from a selected record - don't see one in this pic but from the speaker on the wall looks like they played to the whole shop. I seem to remember buying records in a shop like this on Derby market place between the market hall entrance and the Cornmarket corner coffee shop (Kardoma?) - anyone recall this shop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Microwave TimRam 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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