Here's an age test for you

[Norman Bernstein]

Baby boomers should know this

[ron ll]

Pen is the rewind tool. (Or the slack-taker-upper.)

[Curtism]

ron ll beat me to it . . . and I'm not all that old.

[Paul Pless]

and I'm not all that old.

Me either and even I knew it. I bought my first CD in 1984.

[Norman Bernstein]

Me either and even I knew it. I bought my first CD in 1984.

I'll bet you never owned an 8-track, though....

I'm old enough to remember 4 track cartridges. The difference: the 8 track cartridges carried thier own pinch roller... the 4 track cartridges didn't; instead, the pinch roller rotated up from the deck when the cartridge was inserted.

Incidentally, my wife's TV station, like MOST TV and radio stations, both commercial as well as community, depended on 4 track cartridges for a VERY long time; they were used for things like PSA's, or for background music. Her studio still has the 4 track decks in storage.

[ron ll]

. . . and I'm not all that old.

Me either. It's one of the things my daddy taught me.

[Ted Hoppe]

the pen is used to write on the label. "Mix tape for .... Play this on a rainy day and think of me. Love, Ted"

[Paul Pless]

So I've been looking for a pic of a needle stuck through an album cover with a ball of hash on the end of it. . .

[Curtism]

My '80 Toyota pickup (that Dad encouraged me to buy ) had one of those Craig 8-tracks in it that was the size of a small TV. I had to get rid of the ashtray and cut out part of the dash to mount it on the hump and still barked my knuckles when I shifted into third gear.

Years before that, my first non-radio was a 2-track with one 2 1/2" speaker. it held 4 D-cell batteries that would get you both sides (4 songs) of three or four tapes (my entire collection) before they ran out of juice. The Cowsils actually sounded better when the tape slowed down a bit.

My first CD collection was started around '85 and I'm still working on it. Back then I still made cassetes from the CD's on the home stereo to take in the car.

[Curtism]

So I've been looking for a pic of a need stuck through an album cover with a ball of hash on the end of it. . .

The big question back then was, how many oz's would a Big Bambu rolling paper hold? Now, if you know the answer to that, you might be older than you think.

[ron ll]

Back in my sailboat racing days, we used to take tape from one of these and cut it up for telltales on the shrouds.

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Even I got that one. Yes, I am old enough to have had a friend who had an 8 track; all my money went on boats.

Oh, I tell a lie. Some went on girls. You had to pay for their tickets and meals and drinks, then.

[TomF]

...Incidentally, my wife's TV station, like MOST TV and radio stations, both commercial as well as community, depended on 4 track cartridges for a VERY long time; they were used for things like PSA's, or for background music. Her studio still has the 4 track decks in storage.

I did a bit of radio announcing part/time in high school (early-mid 80s), and all the advertisements were on 4-track cartridges ... we called them "carts." All the music played from turntables too ... that you'd cue up while the cart was playing. Takes me back...

[brad9798]

I STILL own an 8-track, Norman!

[ccmanuals]

Any guesses?



a variation

[Gerarddm]

The slot is for adjustment, I believe. And the hex hole relates to bolt heads.

Other than that, I got nuthin'. ;-)

[Paul Pless]

Any guesses?

This one looks like it could be a wire end for a battery terminal or perhaps a welding lead. But I know its not, because I cheated. Perhaps Bob Adams will be along to fairly give the correct answer, skate punk that he is.

[ccmanuals]

nope. keep trying

[ccmanuals]

[seanz]

How about this?

Baby Dalek?

[ccmanuals]

8mm projector

[Cuyahoga Chuck]

I still have a four track in the basement with about a dozen tapes. Is it worth anything?

My truck has both a CD and casette player. The CD has a disc stuck in it so I play casettes. The problem is some of the cheapie casettes I have accumulated contain tape that fouls the pickup head very fast. I hope they still sell head cleaning tapes.

Monday I took a casette apart to repair a broken tape. My eyes and my fingers had a tough time with that but it works just fine know. Anybody for a little Artie Shaw?

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

And how many amateur nude pics were taken with these things?

Well, I certainly took plenty.

[ccmanuals]

8mm projector

super 8 ?

[ccmanuals]

no cheating now.

[ccmanuals]

super 8 ?

dead give away.

It's an old film strip projector

[J. Dillon]

The rifleman.

[J. Dillon]

Ok what year is it ?

[ccmanuals]

Pretty good. How about this guy?

[Joe Dupere]

" I got a brand new pair of roller skates,You got a brand new key.I think that we should get together and try them out, to see ..."

Extra points if you know who sang this song...

[Joe Dupere]

Tonto.Melanie.

First one is Jay Silverheels, playing Tonto. Second one is correctomundo.

[ccmanuals]

Fred, I think you and I rule on trivia with Joe right there also and Norm a close second.

[George Jung]

Maybe, kemosabe.

[ccmanuals]

Penny, sky king, now I have to think a little about this.

[George Jung]

split tail bonanza/'Skyking'.... but I'm fading....

[ccmanuals]

Songbird is the plane

[Willin']

We still have an 8 track quad player/ AM-FM radio/ turntable and a cheesey rotating plastic stand bearing maybe 20 8 track tapes, on a modular shelf over about 100 old LPs, with the 4 plastic housed speakers spread around the guest bedroom. My closest friends always ask for this bedroom when visiting. In the shop, garage and boatshed I still have cassette boomboxs recovered from the local transfer station. I just can't throw any old music away.

I bought my first cd's in 2001 and my first cd player (automobiles included) in 2004. After the DAT debacle I kept waiting for the next iteration after CDs, having waited this long.

As an anti consumerist, I've resisted buying an IPOD, but can't prevent people from giving them to me out of spite, nor people stealing them.

[ccmanuals]

[Willin']

Agreed. Here's another multi-parter.

Name 1)the plane, 2)the girl, 3)her uncle, 4)her brother, and 5)in what Jimmy Buffett song the girl is mentioned.



Where is Popeye?

The plane's the Songbird, she's Sky's neice Penny, Sky King, did she have a brother? I think this is a what we used to call a 4.0 trickf@ck question, and lastly, Pencil Thin Moustache

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

[Steve McMahon]

Gestetner machine. predecessor to photocopier.

[Willin']

Yep, on the right:

Hmmmmn,I never wrote fan letters to Sky's niece, and I have virtually no prepubescent memory of the brother. Quiz me on Fury, Have Gun Will Travel, The Rebel or Steve Canyon... I can do better.

[ccmanuals]

I can still smell the mimeograph paper. Remember it had that distinctive odor.

[purri]

otherwise known as a Roneograph. thus the verb "roneo'd"

[ccmanuals]

Ok, this should be an easy one for this group. remember, no cheating

[Steve McMahon]

I believe all 3 are appropriate, more a matter of regional preferance. Roneograph, Mimeograph, or gestetnor. All use the same basic technology of a waxed paper for the original. I can also still smell the light blue ink. They were being pushed out by the first thermal paper copiers in the late 70's, early 80's if i recall correctly.

[Steve McMahon]

Ok, this should be an easy one for this group. remember, no cheating

spinning reel. Still popular?

[ccmanuals]

sorry, have to do better than that.

[ccmanuals]

This was the quintessential make and model of spinning reel. It's been said that it's the reel that started it all.

[Steve McMahon]

This was the quintessential make and model of spinning reel. It's been said that it's the reel that started it all.

Im out. Spinning reel, Spincast reel, Deep Sea reel, Fly reel..... that's as deep as my reel knowledge goes.