Vintage cassette playlists

Programmable turntables were great for selecting specific tracks to add to cassettes we made, then copies in double decks

Now I have one of these Technics SL-J33’s downstairs. Linear, scans LP, finds spaces between tracks, track buttons light up, pick what you want to hear or copy.

I had a Pioneer, also programmable, it was a case with a pull out drawer, advantage, you could stack it, no overhead clearances needed

Now, also downstairs, I have a Sony Drawer TT, pivitoting arm, to fit more in the ’stack’, getting my dual cassette and 8 track back in play. not programmable, just a space saver. Damn thing came with a Shibata cartridge.

Sony beta tapes, well you got sucked in by it’s superior quality, both video and audio.

Failure of BETA: 2 tapes were needed for a full movie (public went for lower quality longer playing single tape VHS).

That’s what determined the size of Compact Discs, chairman of Sony said: 1 disc must fit Beethoven’s 9th!!!! (he learned from BETA failure)!

My cassette player (the last of, I think, three) bit the dust maybe ten or fifteen years ago. The cassettes themselves seem long gone -- including all the live recordings of me, both solo and with my various bands. Alas! My history is history🙄.

I never knew there were programmable turntables!