Trip Down Memory Lane

Here's how you listen to your mp3s in the 1980s:

The cassette deck is my dad's original Nakamichi 480. This Japanese vintage audio company made the best of the best; it's the Nikon of cassette decks. The MSRP of the 480 in 1979-1982 was $495; adjusted for inflation, that is about $1350 today. The device features, among other things, dual heads, a silenced mechanism and Dolby noise reduction. Which the texts on the front panel make pretty clear!