For DUers under 29: What is this?

[Deja Q]

:evilgrin:

[Odin2005]

1. audio cassette tape.

[qnr]

10. Well, more precisely, a "Compact Cassette" - they also were quite commonly

used for data storage on older computers. Though your reply was correct, of course :) (Edit: especially since even the data was stored as audio tones)

[GoCubsGo]

14. Or, as someone once called it...

A miniature reel-to-reel tape. Anyone remember those?

[qnr]

26. Yup. I'm a bit of a pack-rat, I still have a couple Maxell take-up reels in storage n/t

[madeline_con]

2. We have books on tape in our middle school. Some kids have no clue

how to operate the players. They can't tell time on an analog clock, either. :eyes:

[texanwitch]

3. I so understand.

I know someone who teaches middle school and her kids didn't know how to work a record player.

She brought one to school and the kids were amazed how it worked.

[old mark]

4. My brother works at a college in PA, and was talking to students about

winding an old clock.."like you would wind your watch."
They had no idea what he was talking about.

mark

[texanwitch]

5. I know people in their 20's who can't tell time with a regular clock.

I could do that when I was 3 years old, even had a watch.

[old mark]

11. If you look on ebay, you can find some very high quality watches very cheap!

They are mechanical, and no one wants them unless they are the ultra stylish name brands. You can find a real gem for under $50.
Even the older, good brand electronic "circle watches" are inexpensive - My main watch is an electronic day date from 1971, bought for around $25.


mark

[annabanana]

13. My two sons are afflicted with this. . .."Quarter to three" means NOTHING

to someone who doesn't automatically segment a circle to measure time. They don't see it spatially.

[madeline_con]

25. I wonder if using the old paper plate clock hands approach might help,

with five minute increments labeled.

[Iggo]

6. You mean a "circle clock"?

:rofl:

[texanwitch]

7. The kind with hands.

I gave up trying to teach the kids how to tell time.

I should have kept my Tommy Tells Time golden book.

[Iggo]

8. I was remembering the 5 yr old (she's 20 now)...

...when she came home from kindergarten all goddampissedoff because she had to learn to tell time on a "circle clock" even though she didn't even have one in her house and didn't know anyone who did. Hilarious. Still cracks me up.

[texanwitch]

9. Bless her heart.

Nothing like a pissed off 5 year old kid.

[MajorChode]

12. A floppy disk

[realisticphish]

15. Under 29?

I'm 23 and I didn't own my first CD until I was in 8th grade. And I used my cassettes well into high school

[Pool Hall Ace]

16. OMG is that Grovelbot's head?

[JTG of the PRB]

17. Ooh! I know this! Whatcha call it... Lite Brite!

:hide:

[CrownPrinceBandar]

18. Hey! That's my dub of "My Aim is True"............

What are you doing with it?!?

[alphafemale]

19. Had a Commodore 64. Dint ya?

Or something much like it I'm guessing.

:evilgrin:

[backscatter712]

20. Atari 400 for me!

And you thought they were used just for storing analog audio...

[targetpractice]

24. I had an Atari 800 and I remember copying games with a friend...

...using my Sears stereo that had two cassette players.

[qnr]

28. You pirate you :) n/t

[qnr]

27. They were quite fascinating in a way, how you could have both data and audio

coming from the program recorder on the same cassette. Like in Atari's educational software.

[targetpractice]

29. Holy crap...

I totally forgot about that capability.... Now I remember thinking that feature was the hi-tech version of a Show 'N Tell record player and filmstrip viewer.

[qnr]

31. Yeah, it fascinated me they could both control (well, start and stop) one another, instead of

just the computer controlling the cassette.

Edit: Always re-check your grammar after wholesale modifications of text :/

[qnr]

30. bleagh... I hate it when I reply to myself n/t

[Iggo]

21. I had a Vic 20.

I shit you not.

[Jennicut]

22. Oh, how I miss those. CD's suck, they sound better but damn it,

you can't throw them around and expect them to still play fine. My older brother still has his, all of them. I think mine are in the basement. My kids (who are 4 and 5) ask me, what is this? I haven't even showed them the records at Grandma and Grandpa's house.

[targetpractice]

23. Kid who gave up his iPod for a Walkman...

Your post reminds me of an article I read some time ago about a kid who gave up his iPod for a Walkman and wrote about the experiment...

It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8117619.stm