Comments on: Old technology

By: sya

sya — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:12:46 +0000

I got to buy CDs around 1997 or 1998 thereabouts when I got a desktop computer with a CD-ROM. I didn’t actually get a separate CD player until 2002.

By: Donna B.

Donna B. — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:50:30 +0000

The media lasts far longer than the the interpreters. Sadly…

By: CGHill

CGHill — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:25:47 +0000

I was an early adopter only by comparison: I bought my first CD player in 1987. (It died after 20 years.)

All but one of my tapes still play, and if I ever get around to splicing that leader, it too is playable.

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:16:50 +0000

“younger than the format”

Scary.

The older of the two I own dates to 1997. Because I was a cheapskate, I limped along for years using cassettes (I remember the folks at Schoolkid’s Records in Ann Arbor ridiculing me when I admitted I had no CD player).

I still have all my cassettes. Most of them still play.