Christine ([info]neuralclone) wrote in [info]vintage_ads,
2010-08-12 23:01:00

Sony, 1973

"But Grandad, I wanted an iPod!"




From National Geographic, April 1973
Tags: 1970s, sony

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[info]misstiajournal

August 12 2010, 13:18:08 UTC 1 year ago

i STILL want one of these!!!

[info]sceneasfuck

August 12 2010, 14:32:06 UTC 1 year ago

hahahaha my thoughts exactly

[info]murakozi

August 12 2010, 15:32:04 UTC 1 year ago

Ditto!

[info]pony_rocks

August 12 2010, 19:52:47 UTC 1 year ago

Mehehe, I have it. :D

[info]my_hypocrisy

August 12 2010, 13:20:25 UTC 1 year ago

That makes me sad. I wish that things were still designed and built to last, rather than to be replaced in a year or two.

[info]yourwordspoetic

August 12 2010, 19:08:37 UTC 1 year ago

Me too! I've spent too much money on warranties.

[info]savagemandolin

August 12 2010, 13:37:30 UTC 1 year ago

It's great that these tape decks went out of style, if only to stop people from recording their life stories to background music.

[info]murakozi

August 12 2010, 15:32:56 UTC 1 year ago

Yeah, now they just record choppy video with their phone, throw on some credits in Movie Maker, and autotune the soundtrack. Much better.


[info]chicklet_girl

August 12 2010, 18:08:11 UTC 1 year ago

"But Grandad, I wanted an iPod!"

"Nope! You'll cart this around, and you'll like it!"

[info]woodburner

August 12 2010, 18:28:49 UTC 1 year ago

What in the world would have made them think people would still be using those three generations later? ...Unless they meant that in the sense of an antique, which, I mean, I have an antique record player and all, but.

[info]thejackaolf

August 12 2010, 18:36:10 UTC 1 year ago

O.o I would, its most far more durable then modern media recorders.
and yeah i have a record player to. i use it more then my MP3 player. but i still like my phonograph better.

[info]woodburner

August 12 2010, 18:50:00 UTC 1 year ago

The player itself might be pretty durable but magnetic tape isn't. And it's certainly lacking in portable convenience...

[info]gemcitytiffany

August 12 2010, 20:48:06 UTC 1 year ago

Your grandson will think it's super cool. Your great grandson will think it's just old and stupid as hell.

As I recently heard:
"Well, we didn't have CDs when I was a kid, we listened to tapes though."

"Tapes... like... the sticky kind??"
*facepalm*

[info]pseydtonne

August 12 2010, 23:23:57 UTC 1 year ago

Oh no... feeling old...

I had a tape deck in my '99 Beetle, which I retired in late 2008. It also had a six-disc changer, but the first thing I played in the car was a cassette (Big Black's "Songs about F*cking", cued up to Bad Penny).

I made sure that track was also the first in my new car. However that time I was playing it from a direct line plug to my MP3 player.

Meanwhile, I still have a Tandberg reel-to-reel two-track deck. I'm trying to convert an old radio production reel from my college days. I visited my old college recently and explained to some of the kids how we would make ads and IDs using tape desks.

[info]neuralclone

August 13 2010, 04:17:17 UTC 1 year ago

I still have a tape deck in my '97 Starlet - however it only plays cassettes, not reel-to-reel. :-D

[info]lexixanatos487

August 13 2010, 11:33:14 UTC 1 year ago

My car ('95 Escort) still just has a cassette player. Yay for converters!

[info]charliesmum

August 12 2010, 23:12:50 UTC 1 year ago

Your comment to this made me laugh so hard, and I needed a laugh. I'm just imagining some kid opening the box on his birthday and seeing an antiquated (if kinda cool) tape deck. 'Er...thanks?'

[info]neuralclone

August 12 2010, 23:47:01 UTC 1 year ago

Exactly what I thought when I found the ad!

[info]katiefoolery

August 12 2010, 23:41:31 UTC 1 year ago

You could just imagine the equivalent now, as you hand over a treasured iPod, kept through the decades, to your grandchildren. They wouldn't even know what an mp3 was...

[info]neuralclone

August 12 2010, 23:49:18 UTC 1 year ago

"Back in 2010 I waited in line twelve hours to get this iPhone!" *EG*
Yes, exactly.

[info]layelld

August 13 2010, 00:31:52 UTC 1 year ago

Great ad.

A Reel to Reel machine! I've never had one but I want one.

I'm into retro tech.

I have a Stylophone, and a Casio VL-1 keyboard. I'm just sorry I gave away my C64 system years ago.

[info]neuralclone

August 13 2010, 04:11:53 UTC 1 year ago

Re: Great ad.

Thanks! If I had a time machine I'd go back and ask your great-grandfather to buy one, just so you could inherit. ;-)

[info]write_light

August 13 2010, 04:10:03 UTC 1 year ago

OMG I haven't laughed so hard in a while.

[info]donnalee_kiss

August 13 2010, 06:39:39 UTC 1 year ago

I just found out the phone I bought for $100 last year is selling for $1 on ebay. The span for obsolescence keeps getting shorter and shorter.
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