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BrussPup, we well know, is a master of illusions. For his next trick, watch him render a detailed boombox using a cassette tape. Don’t worry, you’ll remember what both of those things are once you see them. More »
Well, it’s not looking like this 1973 ad for Sony’s TC-377 tape deck will quite bear out, but we’ll circle back in about 20 years just to be sure. [BoingBoing]
Released in 1978, the 2-XL educational robot was before my time, but it wouldn’t have haunted my nightmares like Teddy Ruxpin did. At least this robot had the decency to look like a damn robot.
Humans have been writing music for at least as long as we’ve been recording history. It was storing it that took a little more time. Here are all the ways we’ve done it to date:
As a gift for my fifth birthday, my cousin Kylie dubbed five cassettes which would influence my taste in music forever: Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet, Van Halen’s 5150, Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms, Icehouse’s Man of Colours and John Farnham’s Whispering Jack. But the first album I ever purchased with my own money is so embarrassing I actually contemplated lying to you all just to avoid admitting it – even to myself. That album was “In God We Trust” by Christian rock band Stryper. What’s worse is that I still have it. More »
SSD, Smesh Smesh Dee. Here’s my visual tribute to magnetic tape, the storage medium that can be measured in MBytes, minutes and metres.
