What do you do when new releases dry up for your car stereo’s tape format but you don’t want to install a whole new head unit? The answer is to buy an adapter*. In the video below you can see two adapters. One that ushered in the compact cassette age and the other that saw them out again 25 years later.
Original idea suggested by Mike Finnell
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*I decided to use the spelling ‘Adapter’ rather than ‘Adaptor’ as this is the most most commonly used one (it’s not an American vs British English spelling thing) – see this
I have been informed that I have STOLEN the idea for this video from a video that until yesterday I’d never seen – here is that video
The idea for this video came from a 31/3/16 Tweet from Mike Finnell.
I then purchased the items I’d need to make it – here’s my ebay order history but it’s really no surprise to me that this idea has been done before – after all they sold Cassette to 8-Track adaptors and they also sold MP3 to Cassette adaptors….both are still freely available on ebay so guess what anyone who makes videos about old tech and also owns both adaptors and an 8-track player is going to do. To be honest I expected there would be half a dozen videos on youtube doing this. The fact there is just one other was a surprise.
See The Simpsons already did it…for more about how many obvious situations or ideas have been done before.
People have been messing with MP3s and 8-tracks for years…here’s one video I remember seeing in 2013 when I was first getting into 8-track – it’s from 2010 where a chap has modded an 8-track cart to fit an iPod inside.
..and here’s an earlier article from 2009 about doing the same thing
I don’t search youtube to see if someone has made a video on the same topics as I am working on, so similar coincidences will very probably happen again….in fact I guarantee that many of the subjects of my videos will have been discussed by someone at some time somewhere.
I know that I’ve seen more than one person making a video about the Commodore 64 and listing the best games for it – I never considered that these people had Stolen the idea for these videos from each other – but perhaps that’s because my brain is functioning normally.
I have a room full of old tech, bought just to be used in future videos. I’m sure many other people will also own these same things and may also make videos about them. If the idea of two or more people making videos about the same gadgets from the past is in some way traumatising for you – it may be best to avoid this channel as I can’t promise that all my consumer electronics items are unique (because consumer electronics items aren’t unique).
