[GH85Carrera]

My great aunt had a Victrola with a lot of 78 RPM albums. It was interesting to see it and play with, but the sound was pretty poor and very scratchy.

In 1960 we lived in Hawaii and dad was a Air Force pilot. He made regular trips to Japan in a C-124 cargo airplane. They always had room for the crew to bring back inexpensive Japanese products. Dad bought a stereo that had two huge speakers and separate tweeters and woofers. When he came home from some long missions he would play the 1812 overture loud enough the neighbors knew he was back. He bough a large tape deck to record music, and then put on a tape when guest were over and it would play for several hours.

When I bought my first car in 1970, it had a AM radio only. I went to the audio store that sold car stereos and listened to all of the devices on the market. All were too expensive for me at the time. About 1972 I went back and I had a $1,000 budget to get a home stereo. I bought a Dual turntable, and a quadraphonic amplifier with 4 Advent speakers and a 8 track recorder. I made mix tapes for my car and had a large box of 20 tapes I kept in the car.

Now I have 140 CD all recorded on a thumb drive. Both cars have stereos that can accept the thumb drives and I put it in random mode. Or I can plug in my iPhone and listen to Pandora. At home, and even right now, I have Pandora playing om my computer.