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June 28, 2012 – I remember when I was about 14 and I bought my first ghetto blaster. I bought it in Spruceland Mall, using money I made from my job at the pet store. It was awesome. And I had fabulous headphones that covered my ears like ear muffs. The tapes didn’t flip automatically, but that was OK. Oh but it was cool.
Isn’t it amazing that now we can carry the equivalent of hundreds of tapes on one little machine that is the same size, but half the width of a cassette, and the headphones slip unobtrusively inside your ears.
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Oh you with the amazing memory…can you recall what the stereo store in Spruceland was?
Sight and sound?
Wasn’t that in Pine Centre?
They also sold apple
Pine Centre had Sam the Record Man… and something else, down in the same space as the Singer sewing machine store…wasn’t that Sight & Sound?
Yup, there was a spilt later, and the spruceland store became strictly records, name changed to the tuning point
Well there you go. It sounds right, and I knew you’d remember!
I have an excellent memory, photographic actually, I’m just out of film….
I remember looking at the apple iii, they couldn’t make it do anything. They also sold epson computers.
Mine is like a steel trap, not much gets out alive.
I remember my Dad bringing home an Apple. First time I’d ever used a mouse. It was probably 20 years before I used one again. Our first computer was a Tandy 1000. No hard drive, and a cassette deck for programs.
Btw, what is this film thing you speak of 😉
I have much in my freezer actually. 35mm, 120, I even have about 8 rolls of 110! Bought that as a lot on eBay a year or so ago. Expired in 2010, but it was stored right so as long as I keep it properly stored it will be good for many years. Looking for a Pentax Auto 110 camera.
I have at least 20 film cameras….
hopefully no Kodachrome, I think film processing will soon be a lost art.
Just ran out of memory film…
I disagree. Enough artists are attached to the medium, and there is something to be said for analogue anything.
I guess so long as the media is available, it’s quickly become a niche market again.
When Polaroid goes out of the instant film business and a group of people buy the last factory and all the equipment and spend a couple of years reinventing a less environmentally unfriendly form of chemical makeup, I think film will stick around for a long time.
Check it out….
http://www.the-impossible-project.com/about/
cool, there’s one of those kicking around here somewhere. but some formats are done, disc, aps. A lot of cameras were sold for those formats not too long ago, but were overwhelmed by digital. Consumer photography is nearly free these days, no thinking that it’s a buck a shot anymore.
Disc! I had one of those. One of the only cameras I ever turfed. Pissed at myself for it too. It broke and if you pushed the button it shot all 15 exposures. I suppose good if you were at a sports event. Otherwise, not terribly useful. I still have a processed negative disc though.
The photos were terrible from them. I suppose you can’t expect much from a negative the size of your pinkie nail tho’
true, it was a bad idea, horribly executed. APS was almost a good idea.
Nah. It tried to improve on a more or less perfect format – 35mm
the idea that exposure info could be written on an adjacent magnetic strip seemed neat, they never could do much with it though.
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