Eight-track tapes?

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Did anyone here - or DOES anyone here (lucky you!! !! !! !! !) - have an eight-track tape player? Or did tour folks/ household/ someone you knew? Probably not a whole lot here, but...
In the Nineties I was involved with this fanzine for people who liked eight-track, but I never could get a player myself .
Eight-track tracks do tend to be thrown around as a corny/joke symbol of the Seventies . We're they that. or were they really more Sixties ?

I predict 8-tracks will make a comeback just like turntables and licorice pizzas.

I think 8-track tapes are strictly a thing of the 70s. My parents had a stereo system that had an 8-track player built in.

...It seems I've turned off notifications so I want to turn them back on again .

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

I never actually knew anybody who owned an 8-track tape player.

Nor did I.

We went straight from vinyl to cassettes. Although I still bought vinyl - then I could record my vinyl onto cassettes and use those in my Walkman & car stereo.

We didn’t call it “vinyl” in those days; they were just called them “records.”

A turntable was known as a “record player,” primarily.

Far as I recall, my family never had an 8-track player. None of my relatives probably did either.

8-track players and recorders do interest me as a vintage technology enthusiast, though. If only I had the budget to purchase one...

I remember my family having 8-tracks and an 8-track player when I was very young, but it wasn't long before we were all playing cassette tapes instead. We listened to records on record players, as we called them back then, a good while longer. In fact I think my parents still have a record player.

We had an 8-Track player in our Buick Skylark, and an 8-Track player at home. It still works. (1970s)

Yeah, our family went straight to cassettes without going through the 8 track stage. we would use both cassettes and "records" , which we later had to call "vinyls" to distinguish them from the compact discs we added to the mix in the late eighties.

Remember some guy in high school (or maybe it was summer camp) boasting about his new Eight track deck sometime back in the Nixon era, and I vaguely recall seeing stacks of eight tracks with album cover art in college dorms, but I am not even sure I have ever actually seen an eight track player. Certainly have never handled one. Though I did use "carts" when I returned to school in the late Nineties and ended up helping to run a college radio station. Carts are self cueing tape things that radio stations used (prior to 2000 all of the jingles, commericals, and sound bites, you would hear on the radio would played off of "carts") which were similar to Eight tracks, and were the mainstay of radio until the turn of the millennium, when various computer formats took over.