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“Record scratch sound effect”
Yep, that’s me. I bet you’re wondering how I got here.
His face looks so disgusted by this.
English face:
“I’m supposed to convince people this is a good idea?”
Gee, I wonder why this technology never became widespread.
I think people in this thread are forgetting how floaty suspension used to be. Imagine hitting a pothole and the car is still bouncing 5 seconds later. In the US at the time the National Speed Limit was 55 mph (89kph).
You think that pic post-dates 1974?! Crap. Every day I grow older. Further or closer to god’s light, who can say?
I’m not so sure, but it does say 1976 in the title.
Other sites give late 60s. That car screams 50s to me, which was like the Cambrian period for trying stupid shit with cars.
The car in the picture is a Volvo P1800, so the sites that say it’s from the mid to late 60s seem to be relatively accurate. Or at least less inaccurate than the posts title.
That looks like a good way to ruin a record. Don’t hit any potholes!
Yet we did the same exact thing with CDs, especially if you had a multiplayer. Tape gang rise up.
CDs are read optically though
They still get scratched when you hit a bump. That’s my joke.
It would also always be your favorite driving song that had the most skips because you’d always have it on. I miss those days.
They… Don’t though. At least, not in my experience.
This seems like walking with a portable CD player.
Like… the Walkman?
More like the discman. Or whatever they called those.
The Walkman played tapes. You could jump around and shake that thing almost as much as you wanted without disturbing the data it was reading from the tape. With discmen, they eventually added some kind of read-ahead buffer which allowed a certain amount of “shaking” for x period of time (like 30 seconds, 60 sendings) before it would disturb the data being read and your music would get all fucked up. I imagine this record player in a car would have very similar issues while driving.
I actually forgot about the Walkman/Discman split terminology, I didn’t realise they changed the name to CD Walkman reasonably late.
Otherwise yeah you’re absolutely right, this car record player sounds like an absolute nightmare of needle skipping and ruined vinyl.
Walkman was a name used for portable radio, tape, cd, and mp3 players.
The little pocket at the top of the backpack with the headphones symbol WAS A LIE
I get that this existed but this picture looks fake as shit. What’s that super low mirror reflecting, his giant yaoi ass hands or his tiny head?
