Recreating eighties recording tech
Dual cassette decks used to be king. You'd copy your records (vinyls) to cassette so you could play it in your Walkman (huh, just realised how lame I am; I get annoyed at people saying iPod and here I am saying "Walkman"), or off the radio if you we're feeling cheap/naughty, and with the second deck you could make your own mixtapes from even other tapes. Did the Recording Companies care? Not too much as they knew you couldn't do a perfect copy; with each generation the quality degraded so (...)
More words on words
It's interesting how some terms become standard and then last beyond them making sense. Including a few that have multiple meanings so context is required. Like "record". It's main meaning is a permanent account, but it also means to make one, and there's the usage that covers phonographic discs. Thus recording a record on a record makes sense. 'course you could call the physical object a "vinyl"... but that requires context as well. Then you have words like "movie"; (...)
