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Pixie-Ro said:
DiogoJ42 said:
We need some kind of trial before people can be accepted in to our oldies club. I propose "make a ten minute mix tape using only a cassette recorder and the radio. Then copy it for three friends and hand make lables using nothing but felt tips."
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Part B - After the judge has pulled the tape out, the interviewee must repair said tape using only a pencil.
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This must however include a mysterious and unexplainable twist in said tape.

BONUS Prizes include "New Zealand Story" and "Rainbow Islands" on state of the art "floppy" disk for the Amiga 500, and this incredible portable music system!

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(PS, that was the first portable tape player I had, can't believe one was recently going on ebay!)
 
Initiation trial round two:

Get a Betamax player to work on the RF input of a third-hand Radio Rentals* 24" Sony Trinitron (including manually tuning the TV)... AND, successfully record an episode of That's Life! using the manual timer, not Video+Plus.

Bonus points to anyone who can explain, without the aid of the internet, the technical difference between SCART and S-VHS cables.

* Yes kiddies, there was a time when for many people, TVs and other fancy electrical goods were rented, not owned.
 
You recall incorrectly I believe.
S-VHS was super vhs, a kind of hd of it's time with a higher bandwidth than ordinary vhs.
I've still got a S-VHS player in the attic that cost me £800, it's worth about 50p now I reckon. :'(

Personally I couldn't really tell the difference which was a bit upsetting after chucking all that money at it, anyway DVD's soon saw it off.
 
And what of the Mini Disc recorder I unwisely invested in? It was brilliant... Until MP3's wiped it out!
 
Mark-Cal said:
You recall incorrectly I believe.
S-VHS was super vhs, a kind of hd of it's time with a higher bandwidth than ordinary vhs.
I've still got a S-VHS player in the attic that cost me £800, it's worth about 50p now I reckon. :'(

Personally I couldn't really tell the difference which was a bit upsetting after chucking all that money at it, anyway DVD's soon saw it off.
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Oops my bad, I was thinking of the super video cables.
 
Ok TS Team Members allow me to get these naughty young whipper snappers back on topic for you.

I’ve been reading and watching to see is someone, anyone even, is older or even close to my age but it looks like I must be the oldest member who posts. I’m 64.

When I joined the forum in Nov 2012 I described myself as:

I am one of those very important theme parkers who:-
use to hold little hands before they all turned into adrenalin junkies, look after the bags, carry and fill the Vesuvius drinks bottle, lug the plastic macs round in my back pack if rain is forecast and can always produce a wet wipe or plaster when needed. Oh and find out all the latest info on cool sites like this cos I’ve now got allllll the time in the world to do it!

Yep you guessed it not a thrill rider but love watching all my flock having fun and secretly saying thank you God when they all get off the rides safely, especially when grandson No 2 goes on Stealth.

Nothing much has changed since that post apart from the possibility of our little miss adrenaline junkie who, at 8, hopes she will reach 1.4m before Nov this year so she can ride on all the SW’s with her big brothers, holding her arms aloft for the whole ride and whooping with glee.

DiogoJ42 re initiation trial two. Do I pass as at 15 every Sunday I had to very carefully dangle the microphone from my Philips twin track reel to reel tape recorder in front of the radiograms speaker to record the top twenty show?
 
Yeh thanks guys to think I could be a winner and I didn’t even need to:

desperately try and remember anyone’s name or what I came into this room to get

repeat the same story several times

pretend not to understand the concept of queuing

or think a web was a spiders home

:)
 
...and you're officially old enough to give Andrew the moderator a clip round the ear and send him to bed next time he has a go at us for drifting off topic ! >:D
 
It's a shame the awards have just gone, this would have been a winner ;D

Although, we've all forgotten what we are discussing.

Ooooh, look, a biscuit.
 
Defiantly think an oldies meet should happen, we could hold each other's walking sticks and false teeth. Haha
 
BigT said:
Defiantly think an oldies meet should happen.
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I'd be up for it. Do they do 10% discount on Tuesdays like B&Q?

Reminicing about the good old days when mobile phones were smaller than they are today.
 
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