FoodBanter.com - View Single Post

T[_1_]

In article >, says...
> "notbob" > wrote in message
> . ..
> > On 2007-08-29, Blair P Houghton > wrote:
> >
> >> I think you were had. There's no way that person didn't
> >> recognize "spaghetti". Just not possible.
> >
> > You must not interact much with today's astonishingly ignorant kids. I
> > had a garage sale and a kid in his late teens or early 20s (gen y?)
> > pulled up in his car and asked me if I had any recording equipment. I
> > was standing right next to a large stereo reel-to-reel tape recorder.
> > I was speechless, so just turned a half-way around and pointed at the
> > recorder. He said, "What's that?" This appears to be the norm rather
> > then the exception with the latest generation that seems completely
> > oblivious to anything beyond the sphere of an ipod or cell phone.
> >
> > nb
>
> Cut the kid some slack they haven't made a reel to reel recorder since
> before he was probably born. LOL Actually the last one I bought was back in
> about 1980 and they where hard to find then.
>
> Joe Cilinceon
>
>
>

Cassette tapes are next. Honestly, when is the last time you saw a
casette player/recorder.