[BC] CD, LP, RIAA, etc...

[Fred Gleason]

On Tuesday 23 September 2008 08:37:08 am Alan Peterson wrote:
> They even gave a nostalgic nod to the old days by calling them "tapes".

It's scary how reality imitates art.  I can remember as far back as the early 
nineties where my sister-in-law would refer to Nintendo game cartridges 
(essentially, a ROM chip on a plug-in card) as a "tape", as in "I need to 
return the Nintendo tapes to the rental place today".  She speaks in the 
exact same way today about DVDs.

Watching the evolution of language can sure be an interesting thing.  :)

Cheers!


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