Q: I have a box full of 8-track tapes. Do they still make and sell 8-track players? If so, what would be your recommendation, and where can someone purchase one? A: Believe it or not, yours is the ...
Later on, many manufacturers made a play for 8-track tapes, but Learjet started the craze. This ad shows an underdash Lear Jet Stereo 8 player in what looks like a 1965 Dodge Coronet, complete with ...
I never owned an 8-Track tape, but I remember clearly listening to them — a fact that sets me squarely in the midst of Generation X. Dad’s truck had an 8-Track player, and when it wasn’t jammed all to ...
Call it the kitsch of death. When you think back, the 8-track tape was the music equivalent of the middle finger. It was a punk. It was skateboarding on the sidewalk, shoplifting at Woolworth’s stupid ...
For reasons still unclear, [Techmoan] has procured an RCA 8-track changer that holds five tape cartridges in a custom carrier. It somewhat works, but had a bit of mechanical issues here and there ...
Following time backward, for portable music we’ve had iPods, CDs, and cassette tapes which we played using small Walkmans around the size of a cigarette box. And for a brief time before that, in the ...
Once upon a time, long, long ago, in a distant galaxy…a Ford Galaxy, that is, I listened to music on an 8-track tape player. Back then we mounted them under the dashboard. That makes me old enough to ...
For nearly four decades, Bob Hiemenz has been the pied piper of eight-track tapes. They've followed him wherever he goes. As he'd move from town to town, people — friends, neighbors, even strangers — ...
(KLTV) - They only lasted about twenty years, but 8-track tapes were cutting-edge technology from the 1960's to the '80's.. April 11 is Eight Track Tape Day, but does anyone know what they are? Really ...