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Rage7-Jul-15 21:31

7-Jul-15 21:31

My son picked up an audio tape from an old box I still had lying in some corner of the house, and asked me what it was. Sigh | :sigh:

Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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Amarnath S7-Jul-15 21:48

Amarnath S

7-Jul-15 21:48

My children saw old gramophone records (both 33 1/3 and 45 rpm) at home. Sadly not easy to find a device to play them.

Was this the first way by which sound was 'stored'?

Re: I feel old

Rage7-Jul-15 21:51

Rage

7-Jul-15 21:51

Yes[^]

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Re: I feel old

Nagy Vilmos7-Jul-15 22:15

Nagy Vilmos

7-Jul-15 22:15

Avijnata wrote:
both 33 1/3 and 45 rpm

Oh you've got the modern stuff. We have an old 78 player and around early 100 shellac records. Big Grin | :-D

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Amarnath S8-Jul-15 0:31

Amarnath S

8-Jul-15 0:31

Yes - 78 rpm records were obsolete by the time we got ours (~1975).

Given that you have 100 of those, may be worth a fortune today; if not with (old) music lovers, at least with auction houses Smile | :)

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Jacquers7-Jul-15 23:04

Jacquers

7-Jul-15 23:04

Those actually seem to be making a comeback. You should be able to get players at antique / charity shops / flea markets.

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Rage7-Jul-15 23:17

Rage

7-Jul-15 23:17

Well, DJs still use them[^] for live sets.

Do not escape reality : improve reality !

Re: I feel old

Vivi Chellappa8-Jul-15 0:36

Vivi Chellappa

8-Jul-15 0:36

For 15 years, I have seen them advertised on Skymall, the inflight sales magazine.

Fry's in the US has them. I am sure you can find it in a local audio store or at least order one through them.

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Ferd Really8-Jul-15 6:21

Ferd Really

8-Jul-15 6:21

Avijnata wrote:
33 1/3

pshaw, me mom had 16 2/3 RPM records.

kids these days Laugh | :laugh:

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GStrad8-Jul-15 22:10

GStrad

8-Jul-15 22:10

Saw a friend's kid looking at my record collection, I asked her if she knew what they are,

quote "Aren't they some kind of old fashioned DVD type thing?"

Re: I feel old

Amarnath S8-Jul-15 22:14

Amarnath S

8-Jul-15 22:14

When she grows older, she'll show DVDs to young kids; wonder what they'll identify them as.

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den2k887-Jul-15 22:15

den2k88

7-Jul-15 22:15

I'm young and I was one of the last of my generation to extensively use audio tapes... when all of my peers had CDs I travelled with huge bags of batteries and tapes. Then the MP3 CDs came out, and I finally had normal CDs. My peers travelled with 1-2 discs while I had big bags of CDs and batteries.

Then the pendrive Mp3s came out and I finally managed to get a MP3 CD... and so the story goes on Big Grin | :-D

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Wastedtalent7-Jul-15 23:14

Wastedtalent

7-Jul-15 23:14

I was having a similar conversation with a friend the other day.

My first response was, today's 18 years olds wouldn't have been born when the Spice Girls released Wannabe.

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den2k887-Jul-15 23:41

den2k88

7-Jul-15 23:41

Wastedtalent wrote:
My first response was, today's 18 years olds wouldn't have been born when the Spice Girls released Wannabe.

Oh my gods, now you made me feel old... Sniff | :^)

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RUs1238-Jul-15 0:21

RUs123

8-Jul-15 0:21

And now the song is in my head.. Have to go listen to some music and exorcise it.

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Roger Wright8-Jul-15 8:14

Roger Wright

8-Jul-15 8:14

If it was on a reel, you are old. Poke tongue | ;-P

Will Rogers never met me.

Free MS eBooks (link from Insider)

Jacquers7-Jul-15 21:27

Jacquers

7-Jul-15 21:27

There is a link in the Insider:

I’m giving away MILLIONS of FREE Microsoft eBooks again![^]
Hurry! Time limited offer. Crazy Eric's ebook store: our prices are INSANE!
Source: MS Small Business blog

However, the page it links to just says 'Group not found'. If anyone has the correct / new link I'd appreciate it. Thx!

Edit. Thx to Super, here is the link: click[^]

modified 8-Jul-15 3:55am.

Re: Free MS eBooks

Rage7-Jul-15 21:44

Rage

7-Jul-15 21:44

I ... would not click on that link.

Do not escape reality : improve reality !

Re: Free MS eBooks

Jacquers7-Jul-15 21:46

Jacquers

7-Jul-15 21:46

It's copied and pasted from the daily CodeProject email.

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super7-Jul-15 21:52

super

7-Jul-15 21:52

check this[^]

cheers,

Super

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Re: Free MS eBooks

Jacquers7-Jul-15 21:54

Jacquers

7-Jul-15 21:54

Fantastic, thx!

Another Reason IE must die

Chris Maunder7-Jul-15 16:08

Chris Maunder

7-Jul-15 16:08

I'm debugging an embarrassing error in IE. I won't bore you with the details, but execution of the Javascript has paused on an exception, and while paused I go to the source file, fix the bug (OK, it was a missing comma) and try and open a folder on my desktop to copy in the updated folder.

Explorer is hanging. Little swirling vortex of doom. Nothing.

I then turn off Developer Tools in IE and Explorer springs to life.

ARGHHH.

Why oh why do we have two logically distinct processes tied together so tightly that a debug break in one (an application) ties up, completely, the other (the user interface into the entire operating system).

*This* is why I don't use IE. It's a perfectly serviceable browser. I rarely get rendering issues anymore. But it kills everything in it's path and even some things safely hiding behind boulders.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Re: Another Reason IE must die

PIEBALDconsult7-Jul-15 16:11