The old tape deck returns – in your pocket
There I was. A weird, waiting teenager, the index finger on the red record button, middle finger on the green play button. Waiting for the speaker to shut the dang up and let the music flow, waiting for the song to end. The result was a loaded Maxell 90 Gold Ultra Max Tech Hyper with that scientific covering that eliminated noise in a new, unprecedented way. And if you’re not convinced yet, look at the charts on the back.
Those days are back. Sort of.
Records up to four hours of radio.
But look, somebody’s already done that
Archived radio shows since 1996
Arkiv, altså. It’s in Danish, det her.
Open Radio Archive Network Group
They got hacked and need your money to restore the 40 days of radio archives collected over six years.
Including the That was Then Archive: 9-11 tv broadcast, Celebration of the phone’s 100th year anniversary, March 3, 1947, introduction of the Mobile Phone, 1947, and the breaking TV news claiming that TV-like machines replace secretaries, 1978.
Including back-issues of the Steve Lamacq show: on the brink of being signed, your new favorite bands.
oid976
March 16th, 2004 at 8:28 pm
Rob Pike’s 43 MB downloadable film demoing the windowing terminal before it existed in common use: http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/rob/movies/blit.mpg
March 16th, 2004 at 9:58 pm
And the John Peel shows. Thanks
March 19th, 2004 at 7:07 pm
look ma no hands!