Free At Last!
In the before-time, when the Cassette Deck ruled supreme, I had a fairly large collection of the things.When the Compact Disc came out, I had a simple solution for my lack of a CD player. Every CD my friends would buy, I'd copy to a cassette. My collection continued to grow.
Eventually, I joined modern times and got a CD player. The cassettes were boxed up, and ignored but not forgotten.
A couple of years ago, I started a personal project at home. I hooked up my last remaining cassette deck to the line-in jack of my computer, and started copying cassettes on my PC. Ah, the glory of MP3.
This past weekend, on Sunday, I copied my last cassette. Over the past 2 years, I have copied between 130 and 140 cassettes worth of old tunes. Eight and a half Gigabytes of vintage MP3's... all with varying degrees of fuzz noise in the background. :)
It's amazing to look at. What used to be 130+ cassettes is now 2 DVD disks. I have thrown away all the old cassettes. It was like ditching a boat anchor.There are days when I really like computers. :)
posted by jeff.w.mcclung @ 2:40 PM
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BTW - today at work, our servers went "wiggy" in a big way. From about 9AM until 2PM, I was doing nothing but running around like a madman with our server admin (who was behaving similarly), trying to figure out the problem and get our site back to normal.
We finally got it to behave, and I finally got to leave for lunch around 2. So, that's why there was such a delay in getting this story posted. Today's been *fun*.
Would this be one of the days when you really don't like computers?
I know it has been for me. I'm ready to become Amish. Is there a form for that?
Exactly. Last weekend, I really liked computers. Today... let's give the Amish thing a try.
hehe, I found a great little product to help me with the same task, converting tapes to MP3's... take a gander: Computer Cassette Deck
Very cool! I need to do that...
What's a cassette?
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