Re: PC or Mac?

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <Jlr58.15321$Zc.5649982@news2.rdc1.mi.home.com>,
Will Strutts <wrstrutts1@home.com> wrote:
 
> The CD didn't appear here until around 1983/4 but didn't become prevalent
> until the late 80's. In the early 90's, record albumns disappeared
> altogether.  I recall the shock one day going into a record store and
> not finding anything other than CD's and cassette tapes. This must have
> been around 1991/2.
 
Here vinyl records lingered a little longer - they vanished from the
record stores around 1993/94 or so.  Interestingly, a few records are
still sold as vinyl records as well as CD records -- The Beatles'
album "1" was one of these.  Those vinyl records are a little more
expensive than the corresponding CD record -- apparently they're
aimed at either collectors or at those people who think vinyl records
sound better than CD records.
 
> The same situation is happening with Cassettes. They are now a rarity
> and blank cassettes are difficult to find.
 
Not so here (yet!).  But reel-to-reel tapes are very hard to find
nowadays :-)
 
> It is very difficult too to find a cassette deck for your stereo and
> I still have a couple boxes of them that I can't play because I use
> CD's in both home and car.
 
Cassette decks aren't overwhelmingly hard to find here yet -- but they
are getting quite noticeably rarer.
 
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