(dons old geezer hat)
Back in the late 80′s, my dad and I came across this kiosk at the local Coconuts record store (which I don’t think exists anymore) that made mix tapes for you. It was called “Personics” and had a strange variety of new music and old songs no one in their right mind would ever want to hear, let alone pay for. Does anyone remember these things? They were sort of a precursor to the whole Itunes-mix your own CD phenomenon.
You paid something like $1 per track, told the machine what songs you wanted, and within a few minutes it had spit out a custom-made cassette (recorded on good quality chrome tape, if memory serves me well) with a laser-printed j-card. After reading this article, (which I found linked from a thread about Personics on The Velvet Rope) I suddenly feel the urge to dig through the cassettes downstairs and find my one lone Personics mix tape, just to see how awful my taste was as an early teenager…
Post title courtesy Jim’s Big Ego