VCR....its maddness
My wife loves to go into Thrift stores when we are in different area's of the Country...I'm not much for it other than a few minutes to look over any electronic stuff they may have. In the past, I'd c...
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No VCRs for me, thank you. I really don't miss having to run down to the local VCR rental store to get a movie to keep the kids entertained on a weekend or having to return it before getting stuck with a late charge, having to make sure it was rewound or having to rent a machine. I don't miss those stupid 8-tracks either.
Here's me back in the good ol' days in high school with a tube amp I built and "lissajous" patterns on a color TV I modified. Got on the front cover of the Teacher's Assoc. magazine. Used to listen to my collection of Procul Harem, Moody Blues, ELP, King Crimson and others for hours on end with that amp. Wish I still had it (threw it away at some point). A neighbor a few houses down the street came over one day when my parents were out and told me to turn the gawd dam flippin' thing off!! Ah, memories... :)
1971 was about when those new-fangled high tech discreet transistors came out. I remember looking at one and wondering how the heck it worked and wasn't sure what to do with one. Tubes I got...
If ya'll find a nice black and white TV somewhere, let me know. Especially if it's an old honkin' big console type. I miss watching Bonanza, Gomer Pyle, Walter Cronkite, etc. in full glorious b&w and having to fiddle with the rabbit ears.
Acampingwewillgo wrote:Hey! I have the same Shure cartridge in my Thorens turntable. It plays through a tube Dynakit pre-amp and amp. I built 3-way speakers 2'x2'x 4'tall like the ones I built back in high school. Amazing sound!! Except now I can't hear high freq. sounds and have to wear hearing aids. Not the same anymore. :( I miss hearing the tinkling glass sound Santana's Singing Winds.
I still have two turntables....one, an Audio Technic's Direct drive with a Shure V15 type III cartridge and the other a Pioneer with what I believe is still my Quadraphonic cartridge on that.
Here's me back in the good ol' days in high school with a tube amp I built and "lissajous" patterns on a color TV I modified. Got on the front cover of the Teacher's Assoc. magazine. Used to listen to my collection of Procul Harem, Moody Blues, ELP, King Crimson and others for hours on end with that amp. Wish I still had it (threw it away at some point). A neighbor a few houses down the street came over one day when my parents were out and told me to turn the gawd dam flippin' thing off!! Ah, memories... :)
1971 was about when those new-fangled high tech discreet transistors came out. I remember looking at one and wondering how the heck it worked and wasn't sure what to do with one. Tubes I got...
If ya'll find a nice black and white TV somewhere, let me know. Especially if it's an old honkin' big console type. I miss watching Bonanza, Gomer Pyle, Walter Cronkite, etc. in full glorious b&w and having to fiddle with the rabbit ears.
