Worf
I'll Lock Up
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As for CD's. I grew up poor. Every record player we ever had was a hand-me-down affair my mom got while working as "the help" for other families (not casting shade... just stating facts). We went from a small '45 player discarded by a teenaged girl (and her 45's to boot) to her pink and cream Hi-Fidelity portable to her parents big hulking RCA unit with a fake add-on stereo speaker (the whole shebang was mono with just an added mono side speaker). We had '78's, '45's and a few LP's. Vinyl was all we had. Dad found a busted cassette player and somehow got it to work, you know one of those portable things with a mono speaker normally found in detective shows recording criminals.
Nobody did real music until I went into the service and discovered the joys of the PX. Still I couldn't afford real music or a real system until well into the 80's when I started buying "real" gear. Before she died my mom had one of those cheesey all in one's with a cassette deck, 8 track and a record player. The two speakers were those garbage deals without jacks on the back just a red and black wire coming from somewhere. My brother, mother and dad all died without hearing or owning a CD. My first civilian "boss" was a hoot though. Dana had an old Heathkit stereo amp he built in the 60's combined with a turntable from the stone age. He was happy and his system was magnificent for it's time BUT in the mid 80's everyone started giving him CD's and he had no player nor knew had to get one. Finally in desperation he asked me to pull him into the current century. After a trip to "Mom's Stereo" (now long gone) we managed to hook a brand new single disk CD player into the Aux inputs of his kit stereo. Man how times change...
Worf
Nobody did real music until I went into the service and discovered the joys of the PX. Still I couldn't afford real music or a real system until well into the 80's when I started buying "real" gear. Before she died my mom had one of those cheesey all in one's with a cassette deck, 8 track and a record player. The two speakers were those garbage deals without jacks on the back just a red and black wire coming from somewhere. My brother, mother and dad all died without hearing or owning a CD. My first civilian "boss" was a hoot though. Dana had an old Heathkit stereo amp he built in the 60's combined with a turntable from the stone age. He was happy and his system was magnificent for it's time BUT in the mid 80's everyone started giving him CD's and he had no player nor knew had to get one. Finally in desperation he asked me to pull him into the current century. After a trip to "Mom's Stereo" (now long gone) we managed to hook a brand new single disk CD player into the Aux inputs of his kit stereo. Man how times change...
Worf