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Donny: I am the walrus.

Walter: Shut the @#&* up, Donny!!

Mith, I saw "Tron" back in '82 when it was released. I was a 14 year old videogames freak. (The word "gamers" didn't exist then, young folks!)

Cool effects, but the plot made absolutely no sense to me.

ANOTHER #9!!!

MeanMrs.Mustard said:

Wow. Tell us more! Like whatever the heck "8-track" and "carbon papers" are! 

Oh hahaha, thought you were joking!  Anyways…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8…..track_tape

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C…..rbon_paper

ANOTHER *9*!!! Unbelievable. Count 'em:

Sure, records were better. The major advantage of the 8-track was its portability. Unlike records, you could play 'em in your car stereo, or carry around a boombox if you wanted. Also they were impossibly simple to use: Pop it in your player and it'd start playing immediately, over and over until you got sick of it and yanked it out. Two adnantages; and a dozen-or-so DISadvantages, which led to their doom.

As for the players themselves, they don't come any more "lol 70s" than this:

Yeah, it's just one single spool of tape, with the 8 separate "tracks" of sound – four "programs" of two stereo channels each – spread across the width of the tape. The playback head is small enough to only play two of the tracks at once, otherwise there'd be an awful (or AWESOME!) racket. Switching between the four programs - optionally either done with the push of a button, or automatically when the tape reaches the end/beginning (of the beginninnggg…of the beginninnnggg) - would shift the playback head slightly from the outside edge of the tape, to the center, and to the other outside edge and back, therefore determining which of the four programs to currently play. The point is, it's still just one length of tape with a fixed playing time. If an album had, say, three ten-minute songs and one eight-minute song, it'd most likely be manufactured with a ten-minute loop of tape, giving each song one of the four programs, which meant there'd be an unavoidable two minutes of silence after the eight-minute song ended. But I don't know if I'm explaining this very well at all…

I had a dream recently that I was auditioning for John and Paul, I had an electric and for some reason decided to sing Yer Blues. It was quickly realized that I didn't quite have the bite to pull that song off, so John said to let him have a chance at it and he was a bit better than I was. Then I went over to the piano and got on top of it and was playing with my feet while I was dancing on the keys. It was odd, but I hope I passed the audition.