Yikes!
You know you’re getting old when your 8 year old boy, in the course of cleaning out “his” part of the garage, comes to you with a cassette tape and asks “What is this thing?”
Shit, I’ve got some reel-to-reel that’ll truly confound the lad.
Like Joe in the second comment of this post, I’d have had to stop cleaning the garage and completely explain magnetic recordings, 8-Tracks as well, with possibly even having to explain how vinyl is pressed before I could let the little guy’s attention span wander. If for no reason other than because I haven’t done that in a while.
Cassette tape? Reel to reel? Vinyl?
Pshaw!
How about single side lacquer disks that run at 78 rpm on a player that needs no electric power to operate, or so says the Victor Talking machine Company.
Whippersnappers, I say. Whippersnappers!
In a movie my kids are currently watching “Unaccompanied Minors”, a girl finds a portable 8-track player and says something along the lines of “I don’t know what this is, but it’s cool”.
I think we actually have one 8-track tape somewhere in the house. Neal (Neil, Kneel?) Sadaka!