Are you old enough .......

My experience with everything here except Cassetts (of which I had many as a kid) is limited to random tinkering I've done with the objects I've found in my house. I do have a Victrola somewhere in my house too though. . . . .

Did you have to get inside the cartridge to fix whatever.

I remember taking the small screws out of a tape cassette if it snapped and the ends of the tape were inside. And then came the fiddly bit of splicing it back together again with Cellotape.

Hours of fun could be had. ;)

I'm 21 - I don't personally remember rewinding a casset tape with a penicl, but I do remember them. I DO remember rewinding VCR tapes though. I love technological progress.

AJ

I still have some of my cassetts lying around. My house is a technology grave yard.

I remember listening to Quadrophenia in my friends' car that had an 8-track player. Wow, they terribly butchered that album on 8-track. (I had the double LP at home.)

I used to have a 1926 Victrola. Fun to play with.

My experience with everything here except Cassetts (of which I had many as a kid) is limited to random tinkering I've done with the objects I've found in my house. I do have a Victrola somewhere in my house too though. . . . .

Somewhere in the house??

How could you not be tripping over something that big?

Stuff tends to pile up in my home.. so I think it's tucked away under some table clothes, plastic utensils and 2Gb tape decks.

All I can think of with a screwdriver is adjusting the belt in them, but I don't have enough experience with them to say for sure. I haven't even seen one in abuot 10 years :lol:

Yeah...you have gotten real close. One more hint: DoubleTrack

I remember the pencil and cassette tape, they were the best of mates sometimes. I also remember LED calculators and alarm clocks, which I find interesting how that old stuff can still work flawlessly with a new set of batteries while some newer renditions can fail within 2 years.

I have an old alarm clock that I got for Christmas in 1975 that was acting up (who would think to give a 4 year old kid an alarm clock for Christmas). I couldn't find a newer alarm clock that I liked so I took the old one apart and put on a new electrical cord, etc., and it works flawlessly again and hopefully for another 36 years. Now that's old school!

I give up on the 8 track, but I won't spoil it by googling.

OK...you guys got close with the 8 track. 8 Tracks had a tendency of loosing its track...Double Tracking. We constantly had to disassemble and used a phillips screwdriver to adjust the heads. Some players came with an access hole so you can put a screwdriver in and adjust it without disassembling. The ones without a hole had one manually added. ;)

Now how many of you had this:

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:lol:

Where's the battery?

I remember the pencil and cassette tape, they were the best of mates sometimes. I also remember LED calculators and alarm clocks, which I find interesting how that old stuff can still work flawlessly with a new set of batteries while some newer renditions can fail within 2 years.

That's deliberate obsolescence, manufacturers realised about 20 years ago there was far more money to be made by making goods that would only last 5-6 years (also cheaper manufacturing to a lower quality), this having to be replaced. All electrical goods nowadays could easily last 15-20+ years comfortably but there's not enough profit in that.

That's deliberate obsolescence, manufacturers realised about 20 years ago there was far more money to be made by making goods that would only last 5-6 years (also cheaper manufacturing to a lower quality), this having to be replaced.

Funny you mention that because it will supposedly only get worse! One of the local news channel in my area reported about electronics in the upcoming 2-5 years becoming significantly cheaper built making them far less expensive (like HDTVs, etc.,), but at the same time they'll also only last about 2 years. I can't remember what electronics manufacturer they were quoting however it sounds grim if it pans out to be true.

Guess we'll be seeing more pages like this then

http://gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/23/7926490-vizio-tells-owners-their-sets-are-unrepairable

After learning that your TV is unrepairable, this is probably one of the best lines I've read this year ...

If the set is past the 12-month factory warranty, Vizio advises owners to buy a replacement set from the company.

Yea, right.

What a frickin joke! Let me run right out and get a Vizio. :wacko:

This is a throw away society, sadly.

Guess we'll be seeing more pages like this then

http://gadgetbox.msn...re-unrepairable

No, don't tell me this we have two 1080p 32-inch Vizio LCD HDTV's. Well they're so inexpensive to buy now anyways, and I wouldn't personally wait for a "repair" anyways because trying to detox from my PlayStation 3 dependency wouldn't be a pretty sight. My theatre room Vizio is 2 1/2 years old, the one in the living room is about 1 1/2 years old.

Sad but true, Andavari! D: