Saturday, September 09, 2006
Digital Music Player
I remember 78's from when I was a kid. Big, thick, clunky records. Then came LP's. Thin vinyl records that could melt in your car on the way home from the record store. And there were cartridges made of plastic that had a tape inside called eight tracks that you could buy artists ranging from the BeeGees and Abba to Floyd Cramer and Mahalia Jackson. Unbelievably, they made the cartridges even smaller, called cassettes that now you could even record your favorite songs from your LP's to the tape just by setting the needle and hitting the record button just at the right time.
If you would have forecasted, in 1970, that I would be able to down load digitally songs from an 'internet' off a 'personal computer' onto a tiny hard drive with 3 gigs worth of memory and then carry the hard drive around in my pocket whilst listening to my favorite artists, I surely would have said you were mad.
But sure enough, you can, and sure enough I do.
This is one reason to believe man is only limited by his imagination.
Thanks to mom and dad for the player.
I remember 78's from when I was a kid. Big, thick, clunky records. Then came LP's. Thin vinyl records that could melt in your car on the way home from the record store. And there were cartridges made of plastic that had a tape inside called eight tracks that you could buy artists ranging from the BeeGees and Abba to Floyd Cramer and Mahalia Jackson. Unbelievably, they made the cartridges even smaller, called cassettes that now you could even record your favorite songs from your LP's to the tape just by setting the needle and hitting the record button just at the right time.
If you would have forecasted, in 1970, that I would be able to down load digitally songs from an 'internet' off a 'personal computer' onto a tiny hard drive with 3 gigs worth of memory and then carry the hard drive around in my pocket whilst listening to my favorite artists, I surely would have said you were mad.
But sure enough, you can, and sure enough I do.
This is one reason to believe man is only limited by his imagination.
Thanks to mom and dad for the player.
