slo’s MONDAY 3/2 poll - 8 Track Player

[sarahann77]

Growing up I never had an 8 track player nor tapes. Very aware of them at garage sales etc, Recently I found out one of my dad's radios is also an 8 track player. So I now have a player but no tapes. Maybe there's still a box somewhere I haven't found yet though.

 

[amcnj]

No 8 track for me. Went from records to cassettes to cds. Car path was similar, but subbing a radio for records!

 

[BrianL]

The ol' 8-Tracks kind of predate me. They were still around some when I was little - my dad had a player and some tapes in his stereo unit. I can't remember using them though. Really, the compact cassette had taken over. We did still use records though and had a turntable with dual tape-deck and would copy the record to a tape for the car.

 

[BrianL]

No 8 track for me. Went from records to cassettes to cds. Car path was similar, but subbing a radio for records!

What, never had one of these baby's?



Honestly, I have no idea how these would ever even work, but they did exist.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

We never owned one. We went straight from vinyl albums to cassettes.

 

[fla4fun]

What, never had one of these baby's?

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Honestly, I have no idea how these would ever even work, but they did exist.

It might have been similar to the record player I had as a child. You slid the single in to it and it played and then when it was done you pushed a button and it popped out like a CD might these days. It was perfect for kids too young to deal with putting the needle on and off the record.

I bet that would skip when you hit a pothole though. . .

 

[BrianL]

It might have been similar to the record player I had as a child. You slid the single in to it and it played and then when it was done you pushed a button and it popped out like a CD might these days. It was perfect for kids too young to deal with putting the needle on and off the record.

I bet that would skip when you hit a pothole though. . .

There were a few different versions of this. Here's one that is more like a traditional turntable.



Yeah, I can't imagine it wouldn't skip and couldn't be good for your records either! I think this is why they were short-lived and not popular.

 

[HopperFan]

DH & I each had our own 8 Track Player as part of our stereo systems.
DH still has his 8 Track Player.
We both had LOTS of 8 Track Tapes.
We still have LOTS of them.
DH had an 8 Track Player in his car.
I had a cassette player in my car (still have the car ~ but newer stereo).

I don't recall my parents ever having 8-track tapes, but they might have. My parents did have one of those huge stereo cabinets with the turntable and radio under the lift up top.

Something like this:

I have my parents!!! It has been gutted of all electronics. I refinished the top and painted the base. I removed the fabric from front of speaker system and built shelf in it. Now is a TV stand on top with DVDs etc underneath. Love having something that was special to them, repurposed.

 

[MIGrandma]

I’m sure our 8-track player and all our tapes are in the storage room upstairs.

 

[DaisyDuck001]

Couldn't find a poll option for never having had one of those.

 

[CynBeth]

I never had an 8-track. I went from record players (which I still own) to cassettes.

Same here.

 

[tvguy]

Somehow I skipped the entire 8 track era. I went from a small reel to reel tape deck, to cassettes, back to reel to reel (large format when I was working in radio), back to cassettes, then onto CDs. My 2018 car has a factory CD player, our 2020 has a line in input and we have an cd drive we can plug in. But to be honest, other than at Christmas when we break out our Christmas CDs (and cassettes at home) we just listen to SirusXM.
Never understood 8 track, just made no sense to me. Most folks did not have capability to record. You could not back them up or fast forward, and the cartridges were huge.

 

[E&Cmom]

I don't recall my parents ever having 8-track tapes, but they might have. My parents did have one of those huge stereo cabinets with the turntable and radio under the lift up top.

Something like this:

My parents had something similar to this . They had a few 8 tracks but rarely played them.

I never had my own. Child of the 70s. I had vinyl records and then cassettes before CDs.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

I had/have neither an 8 track player or tapes.

 

[Genie+]

In 1986 an older family friend gave me a used stereo system with turntable and 8-track player, along with some 8-tracks. Black Sabbath, AC-DC, Boston, Eagles, etc. This was around the time CDs were just starting to catch on but not yet common.

 

[amcnj]

What, never had one of these baby's?

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Honestly, I have no idea how these would ever even work, but they did exist

Ha ha! No, like the 8 track player I somehow skipped the car record player too!

 

[ford family]

Don't ever remember seeing one of those in the UK. I had a reel to reel tape deck that was used to record the weekly top twenty chart programme off the wireless.

ford family

 

[ford family]

Duplicate

 

[slo]

Couldn't find a poll option for never having had one of those.

You’re right - I’m sorry about that. I should have put that option. I must not have had enough coffee yet when I made this - LOL! Please choose OTHER for never having one.

 

[Diznygrl]

Was born in '81 so 8 tracks were long gone by the time I became of age to listen to my own media. My parents never had them either. Of course we had a record player at home that was still being used during my childhood, but for me personally it was all about my cassette tapes and my little pink radio.