The cassette deck is fading in popularity in cars, but its former ubiquity in prior decades led headphone-jack adapters to become a fact of life for people who wanted to plug in a phone or iPod. How were they able to do their thing? https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gyz9j7/the-car-cassette-adapter-was-an-unsung-hero-at-the-dawn-of-the-digital-age
@estherschindler - phone -> usb-c to 3.5mm jack adapter -> 3.5mm to cassette adapter
now, Spotify in my 1981 Citation!
@Render @0x56 @estherschindler I had a 1980 Citation. It burst into flames while I was driving it. A guy with a fire extinguisher stopped at the scene but paused before putting out the fire and and asked me if I just wanted to let it burn.
@Jennifelroy @Render @estherschindler - with all that plastic and pleather, I assume it was destroyed in the span it took to ask you.
@0x56 @Render @estherschindler A lot of the plastic (like the glove compartment doir) had already fallen off at that point. Also, the doors had somehow filled with water, so that may have slowed the burning.
@Jennifelroy @Render @estherschindler - lol... so I wasn't the only one with a water-filled citation?
(hitting a puddle too fast broke the rusted bolts of the back seat covering my date and I in a wave of street puddle water)
@0x56 @Render @estherschindler Lol - that sounds about right😂
@Jennifelroy @0x56 @Render @estherschindler
Why am I now recalling that day in the 70s when our Chevy wagon engine caught fire, and a couple.of guys pulled over, shook up the cans of beer they were drinking, and put the fire out with the foam?
#barefoottoschool #uphillbothways
@misterfive @0x56 @Render @estherschindler That's brilliant!😂
@Dashdrum @0x56 @estherschindler An electronics/hobby store sells a modernised ghetto-blaster. https://www.jaycar.com.au/ghetto-blaster-with-bluetooth-reg-cassette-player-and-radio/p/CS2473
@0x56 @estherschindler
1: I kept a 1980's Pioneer Super Tuner III in the dash of my truck until 2017. It wasn't broken and most of my music was on cassette. I did use a portable CD adapter for a bit though. That deck had outlasted three previous vehicles.
2: ugh Citation ugh. One of the worst cars ever foisted upon the unsuspecting American public, ever.