Many a true word spoken in jest.
As I was driving Chris back to Londinium between Christmas and New Year we were listening to his very cool cube keyring mp3 player. It was attached to the car stereo with the DooHickey. Chris commented that the sound quality was not at it’s best and that I needed a new DooHickey.
Rubbish, says I, it just needs the cassette heads cleaning….
Driving back to the Land-That-Civilisation-Forgot later that day, I was still listening to mp3 music via the DooHickey. Until some point along the A509 when it all went quiet. I suspected the tape had snapped and planned to repair it (not whilst driving) with a bit of sticky tape.
When I opened the cassette DooHickey up to take a look I discovered that sticky tape just wasn’t going to be enough. There is no longer any tape left in the thing!! It’s gone! The radio must’ve eaten it!
So, Chris, I apologise. You were right. I do need a new DooHickey!
January 7th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
Was there any tape to start with? I thought it had something in it which sent signals to the tape head electronically. If it had real tape, surely it would have to constantly write to the tape as it went?
Why don’t you get an FM dongle instead this time? As an added bonus they are legal too. Make you don’t get an iPod specific one though for obvious reasons!
January 7th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
I thought it had some tape in it…clearish tape. Perhaps I’m thinking of something else.
Oh well, I’ll just have to dig out all my old tapes now!