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Boofo · #37 06-11-2006, 02:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Eq4bits

Hehehehe, 'back in *my*' day ...

8-tracks were the best thing since sliced bread... they sure as heck beat having to set the rpm on the turntable, making sure the correct 'spindle' was on there, putting-the-record-on/turning-the-record-over, and trying not to scratch said record with the needle.....;
Dictophones weren't 'tapes' they were green flimsy 45rpm size circles with grooves on them like 'real' records;
The only 'rap' we had was someone knocking on the door..... or gawd forbid a rap sheet...lol
We still had to punch all those holes in the cards (usually a few thousand of them) to run a simple program on a computer the size of a mountain....

And don't forget the "tele-type" machines that were the computers of today in those days. Talk about loud.

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