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And wire isn't dead yet either!

Recording made in 1948:

 
I'll wait for 8 tracks to come back!
I still have my Craig Powerplay & NOS matching speakers.
 
I have my eight track hooked up to my stereo.
 
I'm pretty sure I have an old 8 track tape somewhere but nothing to play it on. I also have several reel-to-reel tapes that I need to convert someday. Problem is my tape machine. Its clutches are shot so it can't maintain necessary tension on the tapes. Maybe someday.
 
Bayless, I have a good friend who is an electronics repairman. He has a cushy job now but if you want it fixed I can all him up and see if he is interested in taking it in. If you'd like an 8track player and some tapes I am thinking of getting rid of mine.
 
Walt, the tape player is in storage so I'll have to find it and get the model but it could be worthwhile at least finding out if it can be repaired. As for the 8-tracks, I am already pack rat enough, thank you. And Greg, I understand what you are saying but converting formats then the cleaning up is a very time consuming job and I need to work on my home remodel and my LBC (plus Super Beetle) projects. I have done 4 or 5 vinyl LPs so far and cleaned with Audacity and I can state for certain it is a slow job. I only have a hundred or so more to go.
 
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<snip> I have done 4 or 5 vinyl LPs so far and cleaned with Audacity and I can state for certain it is a slow job. I only have a hundred or so more to go.
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I have "ripped" my entire vinyl collection and done the same - cleaned up in Audacity. Now all my LPs reside as MP3s on my Fiio Music player.
 
Four-track! Wow, hardly remember those at all. Was it a Muntz?

 
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Four-track! Wow, hardly remember those at all. Was it a Muntz?

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Ours was in our AFRTS Radio station. The commercials and announcements came on them.
 
Was that Quadraphonic Sound? Another thing I missed completely that became obsolete very quickly. That and 8-track, whatever that was. By the time I hear about something, it's already obsolete. I still have my AT & T flip phone. I can make telephone calls on it and actually receive them too, believe it or not - all from a little box. Someone told me that it could also take pictures and I could text on it if only I knew how...
 
One of the worst names for any TV-stereo system - RCA Dimensia, back in the '80s.

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