Posted by Bill Vermillion on 08/03/07 20:08

In article <dl00b3t391cr2k6rkiu6scvnj1jmg380oi@4ax.com>,
Archimedes' Lever <My Assistant: Zhang Heng> wrote:
>On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:44:03 -0400, Derek Janssen
><ejanss@nospam.comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>So, Dark, how's that $99 copy of Platoon holding up? ;)
>
>
> I never owned a VHS title in my life, except for the Blazing Saddles
>job, and that was a gift.
>
> My tape deck was for recording.
>
> I recorded 17 full tapes of the Gulf War, for one thing. Something to
>do between jobs. I owned no pirated titles either.
>
>I was a Laser Disc person all the way. Far superior medium, and I wasn't
>a "but it doesn't record" twit like some folks were.

And when I got the first portable CD players, I took it with me to
the recording studio where I was doing some work. There were a
couple of people from the local underground/progressive radio
station there, and they said the CD format would never catch
on because you couldn't record on it.

I suspect this mode of thinking came from people who used a lot
of cassettes - both commercial and home-made.

Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

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