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(I've found myself trying to squeeze-zoom a paper map while driving -- conditioning can go a long way)

I have purchased music, and plenty of the same music on!
Reel to reel
vinyl
8 track
cassette
c/d
And wiffee has lots on Itunes, of which I have none. Although we have similar tastes.

What if I said I'm 26, and I have a Pioneer PL51...?

Children need to be educated on the latest new-fangled contraptions. A month or so ago some whippersnapper was trying to fire up the Victrola and cracked the sound arm support. This is very easy to do if you don't understand how high tech equipment works.

A new one cost me $175, and while I was in there I rebuilt the clock works, but now it winds and runs like new!

I also took the time to file down some of my record needles as they were getting a bit dull and this helped a bit. It is easy to ruin a needle like this so don't overdo it.

Hopefully I will run as well when I am 85 years old.

During my second Med Cruise in '67, I bought a Fisher 220T AM/FM 55W stereo receiver, a Garrard Lab 80 II turntable & two UTAH HSB1 box speakers. Reel to reel tapes weren't my thing. I think the whole unit was 300.00 +/- or so through the Navy Exchange. That was almost 3 months pay. :eek: A lot of guys bought stereo gear when we were deployed overseas and had the stuff sent to the ship. I long ago forgot how I ever got my gear off the ship, but it saw me through college & now sits in my garage & I still listen to the radio when puttering around in the garage or in the yard. The Lab 80 & the vinyls are long gone.

Question: Does Fisher still exist?? :o

The last I heard of Fisher they were a name only outfit. Avery Fisher was the real deal, sort of like Dr. Bose today who has now left us. I can't think of any tech operation that is truly driven from the top down by one person who demands excellence.

Perhaps Tesla Motors. Are there any others? Google maybe?

Fisher was sold to Emerson and then to Sanyo. It seems they quit marketing units under the Fisher name in the late 70's.

Fisher made their name with tube Hi-Fi, then stereo in the '50s & '60s. Then switched to solid-state in the late '60s. They were still good American-made units. The last US-made Fishers were around 1973. I have a number of the US-made tube and solid-state receivers.
After that, the Fisher name was applied to Japanese products. I have a mid-late '70s Japanese Fisher, that I believe was actually made by Sanyo. It's still a decent receiver, but not really a Fisher!

Happy Motoring, Mark

Going WAAAAAY back:
 

I still have the old Wollensak reel-to-reel tape recorder that my dad bought brand new back in 1959!

Back then it was considered state of the art, and really awesome and expensive.

At the time, he'd just splurged on a "Home Entertainment Center", a great big Magnavox record player in a lovely cabinet with "TWO" big speakers all of it in a lovely cherry wood cabinet. It even picked up AM radio too! "FM" (Frequency Modulation) radio was still in the far distant future back then - Amplitude Modulation was all you got back in the 1950s. Those vacuum tubes in the radio could get pretty hot!

That thing replaced the old Philco unit from probably the 1940s I grew up with as a kid! Used to listen to the old radio shows like "Green Hornet", "Gunsmoke", "Johnny Dollar Private Eye", "Amos 'n' Andy, and "The Lone Ranger" on the radio.

(Television, what's that???!!)


Then when he had retired he took off the cloth cover he had over my grandmother's old radio - in a huge cabinet - it was a 1927 Atwater-Kent radio in a beautiful old console.

I had no place to put it, as I was starting out working at the time and had an apartment, and he didn't want it, so he gave it away! Drat.

If you think that makes you feel old imagine how Harrison Ford would feel if he had to sit through the movie. I bet he would cry. Especially if he looked in the mirror. Mirror is not my best friend these days either.

CDs and DVDs are old school. Memory chips, streaming.

The broadcast spectrum is due for new assaults all of the time. AM? Dinosaur.

I have a couple of those old tube Wollensak reel-recorders with the all-metal - cast alloy construction. One is a 'stereo-compatible' version that could only record in mono, but had a special switchable head to play both mono and stereo tapes by using an external amp for the extra track.
The Wollensaks were still availible until the very early '70s, though by then, they had gone solid-state, and some of the metal exterior parts (lid , bottom-cover) had been replaced with plastic.
I think they managed to survive that long on sales to government agencies, schools, law-enforcement, etc...
The last ones cost about $250, at a time when you could get a Sony reel machine for around $100!

Happy Motoring, Mark