Tape Player 101
As you know Chuckles broke her elbow last week, just as she had started reading Harry Potter, the Goblet of Fire… one of the books with 700 plus pages. OK, the audio CD’s were checked out so I borrowed the cassettes! I dug out an old tape player. I proceeded to give a lesson in playing a tape, something that is just so straight forward…you would think.
It went something like this.
- This is a tape. This is a tape player. You put a tape inside. The tape player winds the tape and plays what is recorded on the tape.
- You put it in like this.
- Demonstrate the open button. Show how to push firmly on the open button. LIne up the tape with the open lid and slide the tape inside the guide markers. Close the lid. Press play.
- These are what the other buttons do. Demonstrate. Make sure you push stop in between commands.
- When you are finished with a tape you have to make sure they are rewound, just like they are now.
She thought it was a cool thing! I couldn’t believe how antiquated it seemed.
Anyhow…what did I forget?
This afternoon, Chuckles is now on tape #4 and she says…there is something wrong with the recordings. There are large chunks missing from the story. But I think I have worked it out!
I forgot to mention that tapes have an A side and a B side.
So now she is going back and listening to the side B’s!
May 3rd, 2009 at 11:46 pm
You just can’t make this up!! precious….Make sure all your posts are permanently archived. A great way to document our little family path…
May 5th, 2009 at 8:29 am
LOL
It reminds me of a story I heard from a uni lecturer at one of the radio courses in Perth.
He was showing the students how to play records - remember them? Black things made of vinyl?
Anyway the students were putting the needle on the coloured middle disk and wondering why they didn’t hear any music.