@ Saga, I was not poking fun at the thread but enjoying it, yes I know all about the record industries reel to reel machines, 8 tracks players in my gremlin, and 8 tracks editor machine in my lab, I go back as far as 33/45 vinyl myself. but I have listens to cylinders my grand mother used to collect and listen to, but sold to someone that really wanted to collect them when I inherited them later. though my Elder, ( pushing 51 myself ) , I have seen the emergence of security cards from the 4 track cassette tapes, (the mag on back of bank cards are just originally glue on 4 track magnetic ribbon.) so not that is audio related remained so...
as for technology, I was imagining where it was going since 1979 ... some disappointments, some astonishments.