Tapes and the younger generation

[astrotoy]

Had an interesting experience this morning. I was shipping back a bunch of tapes to a friend using Fedex and the clerk, a young man probably in his late 20's, asked me the contents of the package. I told him they were recording tapes. He replied - you mean VHS tapes. No, I said, audio tapes. He said, Oh, for voice recorders? No, I said. He said cassette tapes, 8 tracks, or something smaller? No, I said, really big tapes, 2 track, used for recording starting in the '50's through the '80's. He said, well I guess I don't know what they are. After all he was probably born when Bill Clinton was president, and Reagan and JFK are just airports.

Larry

 

[Audiophile Bill]

Larry - I am surprised that you are surprised. It doesn’t surprise me in the slightest.

 

[rando]

I expect if you would have used the visual example of cinema reels they would have made a connection closer to reality. Or even funnier, computer magnetic tape storage.