Shiny Sparkly Daily CHAT Thread - Everyone Welcome - FRIDAY! 3rd October

skint_spice

a wee cheeky babycham would go down nicely Lou unless I can have a martini and lemonade?

LouiseJ

GingerSte wrote: »

I remember that they used to slow down when the battery started to go.

Do you remember the high speed dubbing? Made everyone sound like the Chipmonks! :T

I forgot about the slowing down thing........and the chipmunk thing too:rotfl:

I remember my OH getting a rechargable personal stereo when we were courting (1987) and it cost him £45 then:eek: ......it had a graphic equilizer on it too:rotfl: ........which of course did bot all:rolleyes:

LouiseJ

GingerSte wrote: »

Yep. Gold ones.

Any pictures???;)

redsquirrel80

sallyx wrote: »

I agree Louise i remember getting my first personal stereo for christmas, lovely red one thought i was the dogs b locks

I had a red one too - how cool :rotfl:I remember getting my very first tape player which was a big old square chunky one - like this but brown -


My dad got a microphone for me that you could plug in and me and my friends used to record 'radio shows'.. great fun Before that I had a Fisher Price plastic record player :rotfl:

LouiseJ

skint_spice wrote: »

a wee cheeky babycham would go down nicely Lou unless I can have a martini and lemonade?

As long as the lemonade is from the "pop man" that delivers to your doorstep then its still in keeping with the 70's:cool:

redsquirrel80

LouiseJ wrote: »

I forgot about the slowing down thing........and the chipmunk thing too:rotfl:

I remember my OH getting a rechargable personal stereo when we were courting (1987) and it cost him £45 then:eek: ......it had a graphic equilizer on it too:rotfl: ........which of course did bot all:rolleyes:

:rotfl:I remember having a personal stereo (possibly the second one I got) that had 'bass boost' on it - it was a button that basically made everything a bit louder!

GingerSte

LouiseJ wrote: »

Any pictures???;)

There were some, but they had to be destroyed for the public good.

skint_spice

I remember those tape players squizz my lil bro had one wired up to his zx spectrum!

GingerSte

skint_spice wrote: »

I remember those tape players squizz my lil bro had one wired up to his zx spectrum!

Ah the Speccy. Chucky Egg did take hours of my life!

redsquirrel80

skint_spice wrote: »

I remember those tape players squizz my lil bro had one wired up to his zx spectrum!

OOh.. the sound "eeeeeeeeeeeee--weeeeeee-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" will be familiar to you then When I got my Spectrum it was the 'latest model' with inbuilt tape player.. still went "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" though :rotfl: