Undoubtedly for most of us it has happened that the temptation was just too great to worry about the warranty. Maybe it was a car, maybe it was a cell phone, or even your old tube television set with the extra warnings about electrocuting yourself, but either stuff breaks or you just want to see what is inside, and you have to break that seal. Lucky for me, this Quixotic Quantum Quandary item happened to come along with this pre-existing condition, thus alleviating any guilt I might ever feel should it require some preventative maintenance.
These photographic clues may be a bit too easy for some of you who can remember back farther than 1992 and the debut of House of Pain’s Jump Around. But hey, I have to set you up with a few softballs every now and then, just to get you all lulled into a nice sense of complacency.
Wrangling up parts for this quandary post is a special part of my week, and I’d like for you all to share in the fun! I am always on the look out for something good I haven’t thought of to use, so if you have a super strange piece of some old or neglected technology, please send some photos my way! Just email HycoSpeed@gmail.com and throw Q³ in the subject line so I’ll see it.
8-track playah? The broken sticker I recognize from umpteen things in my basement in varying stages of disrepair, the second photo looks a lot like a tape head, and the 1-2-3-4 says "kachink" right in the middle of the song.
Yeah, that's what it is. Not sure of the manufacturer, even though I've had my hands in the guts of a fair number of those cursed things.
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It is a add-on under dash unit! The maker appears to be "Mini-8", which implies to me a certain generic nature.
Whaddaya mean, 1992? I'm still rockin' the RT-909! Even in 1982 it was the last gasp of the R2R Pro-sumer market.
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