5 thoughts on “Old Skool”

1. But does it have beeps to tell me when to turn the filmstrip?

2. You’re hardcore old school, Mike!

3. Hey, I remember when cassette-tape players like that were on the cutting edge of electronic sophistication!

4. We recently cleaned out the library at our church building, getting rid of the last of the cassettes and filmstrips that had been hiding in corners of drawers and shelves. It was a bit melancholy.

5. Cassette tapes were the Latest Technology in 1970.

   I still have a box like that with 18 cassettes of all the hymns. And I have a 2002 Corolla with a slot where I could play them. The dude in the Era listening to tapes in his car doesn’t even have that. I also have some filmstrips/cassettes that I brought home from my mission in 1980.

   Speaking of technology: In the mid-sixties, my parents bought me a phonograph record with tunes of primary songs. Each song was on a separate track that didn’t automatically move to the next track without giving the tonearm a nudge. You could see on the record where the grooves for one song ended, with a smooth section before the next track. I think the idea was that if you lived in a small branch with no piano/pianist, the Primary chorister could count over a certain number of tracks on the record for the song they were singing. We were in a smallish branch at the time, but I think we did have a piano.

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