The Lounge

Melody1 · November 5, 2020, 2:15pm

Joe90 - top tele!

Melody1 · November 5, 2020, 2:16pm

Grab the pencil and Sellotape

teacake · November 5, 2020, 2:16pm

You start to feel old when you can remember VHS vs Betamax war lol

Melody1 · November 5, 2020, 2:17pm

No, those were my Adult toys

wildflower · November 5, 2020, 2:17pm

Oh the times I spent doing that…sometimes it actually worked too!

WillC · November 5, 2020, 2:17pm

What about the non-runner…Video 2000?

teacake · November 5, 2020, 2:19pm

I don’t remember Video 2000, what year was that?

Melody1 · November 5, 2020, 2:19pm

78 or 45?

wildflower · November 5, 2020, 2:20pm

VHS tapes used to go the same way, you’d be half way through a film when everything stopped and when you tried to retrieve the tape it was a jumbled pile that you had to prise out with a pencil!

Joe_90 · November 5, 2020, 2:21pm

Fluff on the needle has a whole different meaning nowadays!!!

WillC · November 5, 2020, 2:22pm

I actually recorded all the songs i owned that had backwards masking, took the cassette apart and put it back together so i could hear them the right way round! That’s how i knew Rocket by Def Leppard had the chorus of Gods of War in the instrumental bit! Sad eh?

wildflower · November 5, 2020, 2:23pm

Oh that it explains it! I did wonder how you knew that !

WillC · November 5, 2020, 2:24pm

Regarding VHS and cassette tapes, the longer the run time, the more likely they were to snag. I think C90’s were the best for run time/reliabilty!

Joe_90 · November 5, 2020, 2:24pm

How long did it take to load pacman on your ZX Spectrum?

wildflower · November 5, 2020, 2:25pm

Blimey never mind how long it took , what about the ear splitting racket the ZX Spectrum used to make as it was loading?

Joe_90 · November 5, 2020, 2:27pm

Absolutely. C120s had a lifespan measured in minutes.
In the car do you remember fast forwarding and rewinding to dry the condensation off the cassette heads in the winter?

Melody1 · November 5, 2020, 2:27pm

Mr Blue Sky? I know you love ELO

teacake · November 5, 2020, 2:31pm

That’s because the tape itself would stretch when recording, did you have the luxury of SP LP?

Chosen-one · November 5, 2020, 2:36pm

@WillC & @wildflower I actually remember buying Now That’s What I call music the original twin cassette Nina 99 red balloons was the first song on tape 1 Just now music no number after it

What number is Now music up to now???

Before that we use to record the charts off the radio on to a blank cassette

wildflower · November 5, 2020, 2:45pm

@Chosen-one Now Music is on 107 now ( I had to google that)

I used to be primed next to the radio on Sunday evenings, my finger on the record button for the charts and just when I pressed and started recording someone would burst in, start talking and the ruin the whole thing!