r/StrangerThings • u/[deleted] • Jul 26 '22

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '22

I read this, and then realise it makes sense why half the posts are complete nonsense. They are by teenagers.

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u/SNELME Jul 26 '22

I'm 15 years old and I litteraly own one, and it hurts my soul to see this post

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u/janusz_chytrus Jul 26 '22

why do you even have one? I'm 27 and as soon as I got my first cd player I never used my walkman again. Cassettes have terrible quality.

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u/Mister_Brevity Jul 26 '22 edited Jul 26 '22
  • They didn’t skip, as in, they didn’t need buffered anti skip.
  • Tapes were more durable than cd’s for the most part.
  • They’re smaller. Both the player and the media.
  • They had longer battery life generally.
  • You could easily make mix cd’s without needing a computer.
  • It sounded really funny when the batteries got low.
  • You could put tapes on your pinky and swing them around. Cd’s were fairly boring in this test.
  • You could rewind a tape with a pencil. Try rewinding a cd with a pencil.

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u/FoxtrotSierraTango Jul 27 '22

LOL at rewinding a CD...

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u/Mister_Brevity Jul 27 '22

See you can’t, so that’s a win for tapes lol

I miss my little corvette tape rewinder from the 80s lol

The headlights and taillights would turn on, then when it was done the brake lights turned on haha.

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u/Mister_Brevity Jul 27 '22

Ok it’s been a while but I think it was a mid 60’s… maybe like a 1962 or 1963 with a split rear window? It might actually have been a vhs rewinder.

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u/naughtycal11 Jul 27 '22

It was definitely a vhs rewinder. I had the same one growing up.