[78-L] The audio casette is making a comback

[simmonssomer]

Oh no! Not now. I'm struggling to learn how to use a flash drive, that tiny 
little bitsy 4 GB thing that you insert into the USB slot of your computer
and which, they tell me, can hold my entire stash and probably the Library 
of Congress Audio archive.
I work for a lecture series as audio consulant and for the last few years 
they've been providing me with audio cassette masters of each lecture to
use for transfer to CD's on my Sonys which are then distributed to the 
subscription audience the following week. Last week, however, the University 
Audio Chief handed me this tiny Flash Drive component and said..We're 
shifting from cassettes to this. Have a nice weekend.
Holy crap. My computer is five years old. Now what?
I called in the troops. With the help of a friend who is a computer genius 
we installed "ROXIO", a program that allows me to transfer the Flash Drive 
material to CD's or DVD's. I hate it and I hate the concept BUT science 
marches on.
If  the cassette is indeed making a comeback I wish it would come back to 
our lecture series because, looking into the future, we'll be dicussing that 
Ray Noble HMV on track 1,5467,000 of our Flash Drives. We'll carry the 
entire contents of all 78 r.p.m. recordings in one pants pocket.
Tempis foooojit.

Al Simmons



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] The audio casette is making a comback


> Oy.
>
> dl
>
> On 10/20/2011 9:01 AM, Steve Ramm wrote:
>>
>> Interesting article in TODAY's Wall St Journal on  the revival of the 
>> audio cassette:
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/3gbj3rx
>>
>>
>> Steve Ramm
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