post it on e-bay- you can pay for another Josephine-do

Oh Boy, I remember those….Hubby remembers the reel to reels (hes not that old)His first car had an 8-Track in it and his parents had/have i believe areel to reel player. And an old Philco TV that also had a Record Player in the Console too.

Woah… I have my old radio for cassettes somewhere. CD’s are becoming a thing of the past with i-pods – my, how things change!

I always laugh that my kids have no idea what albums (records), 8-tracks or cassettes are. I wish I had some of my old tapes on CD. I had some oldie but goodies.

way to go! i am sure that there are several models like that at my parent’s house. now that is scary!

Have I got the solution for you!!! Amy got me a record-player/radio/CD-player (that BURNS CD’s) for Christmas–and I spent New Year’s Eve taking a stack of old 45’s (try that on your kids–mine picked her faves) and turning them into one rockin’ CD! And an old album that no-way ever saw the light of the CD era–and CD’d that too. (group: Nymphs & Satyrs–renaissance vocals, some with a jazzy beat.) Boy did I have fun–and that’s only the beginning! (Can you say “9 feet of vinyl?”) Yes, it has an input so I can turn all the cassettes to CDs. And I ripped one track of a “new” CD to the computer. Had looked ALL OVER for it on CD, to buy it, but no Ferrante & Teicher “Beautiful Beautiful” CD to be found, nor “African Echoes” track from them. WooHoo! So, anyone with ancient technology, it IS possible to at least join the next-to-last technology with the touch of a button…and time to listen to the vinyl once!

I think my brother had that exact same one when we were kids. I also remember playing with the 8-track player and having a ball with it. My kids don’t even know what records are, the poor things.

Hey, I gave that to you for Christmas! Have you no sentimentality? Does it work?\

Love, Dad

I had a player like that, too. Oh, those were the days. I also had a blue Panasonic Toot-a-Loop AM radio that I really thought was The Bomb when I received it for Christmas the year I was in 5th grade.

My mother, who neither likes nor ever listens to music, somehow got on to the cassette bandwagon and saved me from 8-tracks and the HUGE gaps in the middle of songs.

More than one road trip in my younger days was accompanied by a jerry-rigged cassette deck and a small suitcase of song mix tapes I had spent HOURS of my life preparing.

I always dreamed of a day when most of my odd music library would be completely portable, without carrying boxes of tapes other paraphernalia. I have two mp3 players, one an old generation player from about 5 years ago, and a newer, even more compact model that holds even more stuff.

I may cave in and buy one of those record player thingies mentioned in an above comment, because I still have ALL my vinyl and cassettes. And I used to work in a record store. A BIG record store. I think at least half of its stock came home with me over the years. I can;t bear to part with any of it. 😉

Sorry, Dad–no, it doesn’t work. Maybe Richard might like to tinker with trying to fix it, he always likes puzzles for Christmas; I’ll ask before we toss it.

You know, I recorded songs from the radio with that thing. The Napster of my generation.