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In Reply to: RE: First cassettes posted by DaveInVA on August 07, 2009 at 10:07:40
Great response, Greg ! I remember my Dad toting around one of those mid-sixties recorders for his work, and I became fascinated with the recording of sounds. I later inherited it, and instead of voice, I'd migrated towards recording FM music using the mic attachment. Talk about a crude way to record music ! I was a kid, and it was good enough to mess around with for awhile.
As for car audio, it wasn't till the early 70s that I picked up on the fact that those in the know were seeking cassette decks, and spurning 8-tracks. My dad's last 8-track car was a 76 Mercury Monarch I believe. By the mid seventies, kids were installing underdash cassette decks, later came the "in-dash" ones. One friend of mine mounted his cassette deck "under the seat" of his '65 Corvair Convertible, because he didn't want it noticed and wanted to keep the original dash "stock" looking. (He had been entering it in shows.) Eventually they made a "Pony" motif in-dash cassette to keep the classic dash look for the 60s Mustangs. Just memories, they are definitely pegging my age now!
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