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Joe Cilinceon

"T" > wrote in message
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> In article >, says...
>> "notbob" > wrote in message
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>> > On 2007-08-29, Blair P Houghton > wrote:
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>> >> 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
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>> 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
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> Cassette tapes are next. Honestly, when is the last time you saw a
> casette player/recorder.
>

I'm a 100% HD and HDDVD. I have been for about 2 years including my
computer's TV card and monitor are HD. I see one once in a while in a used
car though I have a 90 mustang GT that has a CD player in it. I also have a
VCR to DVD recorder so I could get my old VCR over to DVD.

Joe Cilinceon