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Floppy Discs........for the biddies only!!!
Now everyone thinks...Floppy Discs...computers...but No......for us biddies who remember getting the Jackie magazine in the 70's.......and others....well who remembers those 45's you used to get for free...you'd rip them off and put them on the record player..... Oh the good old days.....
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Arrh, flexi-discs. They never worked if you tried stacking thm under the 'swing arm' of your "hi-fi"*.
* - Before CD's and downloads, if you liked a track or band you went out and bought the album, or, if you weren't sure, just the single (45rpm, 7"). You could stack these up on the 'pin' above your turntable, and each time one record finished, the arm would return, and the next lump of vinyl drop down ready to play automatically !!! (Did I explain about there being no such thing as remote controls?)
Don't knock the record players though - those contraptions where you played one single while up to nine more hovered precariously above held by a spindle and swing arm waiting their turn were works of wonder.
One flexi-disc I still own came free with Loving magazine (some late 70's / 80's slush mag for dreaming teenage girls).
The flexi track, called 'Our wedding' purported to be by 'Creative Recording & Sound Services', but was actually by anarchist punk band Crass. it caused quite a stir at the time.
I don't hesitate to emphasise that I didn't actually buy Loving magazine, but managed to track down this infamous giveaway a good few years later. -for the sake of completing my Crass collection of course !!
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