Music

[Dark Mantis]

This thread  has been split and moved from Motherboards and Intel Processors.

 and Floyd is in my top 5 of all time best ever's....

  Aussie Allan

This forum is getting better and better!  

I think it is time to get back on track now though as Rolo said I'm forgetting what this thread was about.

[Rolo42]

  and Floyd is in my top 5 of all time best ever's....

I'd have to say they're my #1.  My earliest memory is listening to Wish You Were Here on a McIntosh.  (no, not the computer)  I even like the not-so-popular albums (more than the popular ones): Obscured by Clouds, Meddle, Animals, The Final Cut...

Metallica is #2.  (not including that St. Anger crap and anything they may have done afterwards; I'm assuming that, after whining to Congress, they just decided to stop piracy by making something nobody would want, even for free.)

[Aussie Allan]

  How the hell did I get here   ..... Oh well, ...what Ev-aaaaa! ..... FOUND IT! ..... Original Too......Mint condition .... Vinyl , ... "Dark Side Of The Moon" ...can't believe I found it ..... and with only one good eye too...

   Anyone got one of those spiny thingies ? ....  Nooooooo! not the wind-up ones. .... this is got to be worth something.

  Aussie Allan

[Ben]

Miss my 'eight track' tapes had them in the foot well of my car great stuff; Bowie, plus mixed artists.
Now I have these  flat round shiny thing's  that were supposed to be bomb proof, I have since found out that you practically  need cotton gloves to handle the damn things, unlike my old 8 tracks practically bullet proof, a bit of petroleum jelly on the wheels & away she would go.

Nostalgia don't you just love it.

Ben.

[Dark Mantis]

I still have my Technics HiFi setup with turntable about 30 years old now but I must admit it doesn't get used that often nowadays. Proper music! Still have quite a collection of old vinyl too although I had to get rid of some a few years ago because of the space they took up. Just kept the favorites.

[Aussie Allan]

I still have my Technics HiFi setup with turntable about 30 years old now but I must admit it doesn't get used that often nowadays. Proper music! Still have quite a collection of old vinyl too although I had to get rid of some a few years ago because of the space they took up. Just kept the favorites.

One of the advantages of big,old vinyl is it can't fit in ya pocket ....... do you know how much stuff my misses has put through the washing machine .... yup!....she put my Nano through one just before Xmas  .... two and a half thousand Bl**dy tracks......Women don't have pockets....so why check!....

  The list so far in the last five years ...

  1x Nano
  3x laser pointers
  DS-Lite
  Several Game Carts
  1x CPU
  3x Mobile Phones
  1x Rifle Bolt
  A couple of hundred quid
  Girls telephone numbers (Hee hee)

  And these are just the ones she's owned up too ....


  Aussie Allan
 

[Dark Mantis]

Love it!  

I can't say our washing machine has seen as many foreign objects as yours but it has had it's fair share. There have certainly been several pen drives that have been laundered luckilly usually they have worked still once washed in clean water and dried off.  

[Ben]

Yep the good old washing machine, I still have some odd socks, also my daughter drowned 3 MP3 players in it.

Worst culprit is the 5 cent piece, keeps blocking up the drain, (top loader).

Regarding record players I had a portable one years ago great little thing with speaker built in.

Ben.

[Rolo42]

my misses has put through the washing machine .... yup!....she put my Nano through one just before Xmas  .... two and a half thousand Bl**dy tracks......

heh..Install a metal detector in your laundry room.

No matter how careful you are...

...I had my MP3s on my main computer; I had them on my backup computer with DFS keeping them in synch.  One night I took the backup offline and set the (re)format (switching file systems IIRC) and went to bed. 

I woke up the next morning to morning coffee and, "thunk...thunk...thunk...", a victim of the IBM DeathStar fiasco; I had four of the infamous 75GB drives in RAID0, holding the only remaining copy of my 40,000+ MP3s.  I had redundant copies for years but Murphy couldn't pass up that 6-hour window to end my DJ career.  I never recovered and I never, ever considered buying a Hitatchi (IBM with a new label) disk.

[Aussie Allan]

    Hahahahahahaah  40,000+! And I thought my measly Nano was a disaster!...... betcha the dog couldn't sit down for a month 


         Hitatchi .... BRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

  Aussie Allan