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kids today will never know the hassle of burning a cd of mp3s and then recording the cd onto a cassette tape to play in the car. in real time. and if you bump the desk or otherwise jostle the cd player, you'll get a nice skip on your tape
Most kids back then probably didn't either, because they would've hooked the tape recorder up to the line out port on their computer if they wanted to do that.
My friend, no one had a laptop in the 90s. They didn't become cheap enough for that until the early 2000s.
My uncle used to work for Microsoft back in the day and so he had one of the earliest commercial laptops. I think the laptop weighed more than he did.
It had the worst screen in the world it had a viewing angle of about 4° but everyone wanted to see it.