From: don@DonHopkins.com (Don Hopkins)
Subject: [TUHS] (cassette) tape coming back [was Re: 80 columns ...
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 23:46:12 +0100 [thread overview]
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Once I took a screen snapshot of my Apple ][ hires graphics with glow-in-the-dark silly putty!
It didn’t last long, but it was cool while it lasted! Kinda like Kai Power Goo.
-Don
> On 8 Nov 2017, at 22:48, Charles H Sauer <sauer at technologists.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 8 Nov 2017, Larry McVoy wrote:
>
>> It's like video on phones. We still call it taping. Probably still will
>> in a 100 years. Where's the tape? In history.
>
> As with the resurgence of 33 1/3 records ("vinyl"), cassette tape may also become more prominent again: https://www.wsj.com/articles/cassettes-are-making-a-comeback-but-there-s-a-kink-nobody-makes-tape-1509723435
>
> I still use VCRs to record TV shows roughly once/week.
>
> I have an interesting collection of audio recordings on 1/4" tape that I made 20-40+ years ago as an active sound technician/musician. I'd given up on my old reel to reel machines, but a year ago my birthday present to myself was a reel to reel machine and Dolby units. I'm very slowly fetching stuff out of my archives and digitizing.
>
> I typically call it "recording" whether analog or digital...
>
> Charlie
>
> P.S. Having started out with 80 column cards, 72 columns of content, 8 of sequencing, continuing through most of graduate school, I typically restrict myself to 72 columns when programming.
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Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-08 20:52 [TUHS] " ron minnich
2017-11-08 21:02 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-08 21:19 ` Dan Cross
2017-11-08 21:24 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-08 21:28 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-11-08 21:48 ` [TUHS] (cassette) tape coming back [was " Charles H Sauer
2017-11-08 22:46 ` Don Hopkins [this message]
2017-11-08 23:28 ` [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2017-11-08 23:35 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-08 23:39 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-08 21:34 ` Dan Cross
2017-11-08 21:40 ` Dan Cross
2017-11-08 21:40 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-08 21:43 ` Dan Cross
2017-11-09 1:00 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-11-08 23:46 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-11-09 6:52 ` Otto Moerbeek
2017-11-08 21:06 ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-08 21:18 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-11-08 22:17 ` Grant Taylor
2017-11-08 22:30 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-08 23:07 ` Andy Kosela
2017-11-08 23:15 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-08 23:15 ` Warner Losh
2017-11-08 23:49 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-09 0:04 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-08 23:24 ` Andy Kosela
2017-11-09 7:24 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-11-09 15:02 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-09 19:14 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-10 16:18 ` Nemo
2017-11-10 19:05 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-11-10 20:36 ` Toby Thain
2017-11-10 20:39 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-10 20:46 ` Warner Losh
2017-11-10 20:59 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-11 9:24 ` David Arnold
2017-11-10 20:43 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-11-10 20:58 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-10 21:02 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-11-10 21:09 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-10 21:12 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-11-10 21:34 ` William Corcoran
2017-11-10 21:50 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-11-10 22:58 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-10 23:05 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-11-10 23:52 ` Toby Thain
2017-11-11 0:24 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-11 16:40 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-11-11 16:47 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-11 17:23 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-11-11 17:38 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-10 22:46 ` Toby Thain
2017-11-10 22:59 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-11-11 14:33 ` Andy Kosela
2017-11-11 17:19 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-11-11 17:24 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-11 17:25 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-11-10 23:59 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-10 22:10 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-09 20:46 ` Lars Brinkhoff
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