When I was young, my older brother told me that there were tape recorders that could record voices and more expensive tape recorders that could record music. If you tried to record music with a less expensive voice-recording tape recorder, you would play back silence. We were very lucky that we had one of those expensive, music-recording tape recorders!
A childhood belief about technology
others believed things like this
- I thought the “rec” button on tape recorders said wreck and it would wreck your tape if you pushed it!— Alberto Richardson
- I used to believe that a person could fix ANYTHING with Scotch tape.— Felix
- I used to think a world record was a record of all the people in the world singing .— JACK REGAN . [SWEENEY . ]
- I used to put a camera along my fireplace on Christmas Eve in hopes to tape Santa.Anon
- I used to believe that you could only play a record once, and after that all the sound was wiped off.Anon
- My partner thought women used the brown packing tape as wax strips.— Helen