[peel] Is it sad...?

[MARK LUETCHFORD]

i still have a nifty device that fits in a car cassette has a jack that comes out of it and then you plug a mp3 into it and it plays ... how does that work??? if only the cassette player in the car worked still...


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 From: RobF <robfleay@...>
To: peel@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Friday, 31 January 2014, 15:19
Subject: Re: [peel] Is it sad...?
 


  
This reminds me that when portable mp3 players first came on the market, the first one I ever bought was shaped as a cassette and it actually played by putting it into the tape player of my car!

It had 256mb of memory so barely got 2 albums on it, I wish I'd lept it, it was a real technological abomination




On 31 January 2014 15:01, stephen phythian <theallnewadventuresofspp@...> wrote:


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>Before I found this wonderful group, I relied on my own, rather haphazard, collection of Peel on cassette tape. I tend to associate Uncle John with that venerable format and so, I have to admit, feel slightly at odds with a hard disc full of digital file shows (grateful though I am, of course). My pseudo confession is that I am contemplating transferring the entire Peel archive back to cassette where I'm sure it will sound 'right', having passed through the analogue filter. I even have a Nakamichi Dragon and a heap of blank tapes at the ready. Reason for my post? Just wondered if anyone else had already undertaken this Herculean, although perfectly reasonable, task and if they might have regretted starting the might feat at all? Paul
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