The Everything Drawer - Everyone has one, right? (post anything - within the rules)

Darn it Doc! If I look deep enough in my basement, I have two cassette tapes of cadences. I just spent 15 minutes digging through boxes but couldn't find them. If I do, I will share a picture.
 
Before I transferred from Japan in 84 I bought a Pioneer stereo and cabinet at a great local price through the exchange and had it shipped stateside separately from my HHG. It has a double cassette deck, turntable, the whole 9 yards. I also got Bose speakers. I haven’t hooked it up in several years and it’s currently serving as a TV stand. It is vintage equipment and I would sell it if I knew where I’d get a fair price.
 
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gosh Doc. You are sending me down nostalgia lane. I bought this set at the exchange and sent it home ahead of me. I just started playing around with it again over the holidays. Played some Christmas vinyl to the shock of my kids.
 
Пришлось снова обратиться к словарю ...

I actually found my old Walkman, shoved in my wool sweater drawer (haven't worn one since moving to AZ, years ago...)

Wife's reaction was: why do you still have that?

<<<big smile, friendly words, backed out to the storage area and the memento's box>>>
 
You know some of us are dating ourselves. I find it fascinating the audiophile world shifted from massive speaker systems and powerhouse amps (Altec-Lansing, Bose, EV, JBL, Technics, Hitachi, Pioneer, Denon, the afore-mentioned Klipschorn and many other serious audio tech brands) to digital-based media, going smaller and smaller. In the storage room on the Shelves of Vintage Tech, I still have what at the time was a state-of-the-art laser-guided turntable. I have fond memories of going to the overseas military exchanges into the “sound rooms,” walls of massive speakers, displays of amps, receivers, turntables, etc., including reel-to-reel, then tape in various formats, then CD, DVD, Blu-Ray, plus “serious audiophile headphones), and building dream systems in my mind. Now I just hook up my iPhone via Bluetooth to a Bitty Boomer.

Enjoy this vintage clip.
 
We do have a great movie surround sound system that makes you feel the cannons are booming all around you in movies like “Master and Commander.” Movies on the small screen are just not as much fun as the large screen in the middle of the Dolby sound.
 
This video is from the 2013 Holland's Got Talent television show. Amira Willighagen was 9 years old at the time.
As you might expect, she's something of a sensation now.

 
And another "kid". 16-year-old David Thibault from 2013:

 
You want to know dating yourself! They call these vintage now. My first Radar site had these in the computers and scopes. Used to help the computer guys fix the bad channel by turning off the lights and see which tubes were not glowing in the cabinets. I am not old I am vintage.
 

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You want to know dating yourself! They call these vintage now. My first Radar site had these in the computers and scopes. Used to help the computer guys fix the bad channel by turning off the lights and see which tubes were not glowing in the cabinets. I am not old I am vintage.
I think 100 years puts you in “antique” range. Let’s hope you’re not there yet.
 
This is the third president happy at the thought of meeting Coach Saban. My Crimson Tide has won six of the last 12 college football national championships and thus are frequent visitors to the White House. This is not a political post. It’s funny.
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