Answering machines....ha!
I remember leaving messages like that in the 90s. We tried to sound sophisticated and ended up dorky all of a sudden.
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Remember this tape you could buy for messages? I blew some of my allowance money for a tape like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO_QPIXpBF0
Wrong link before. Lesson learned check your links after posting. It was suppose to be the Holiday version of Crazy Calls.
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Remember the tapes you could buy for messages? I blew some of my allowance money for a tape like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wewsuLjJpEo
Gee, they only talked about these tapes and even played one on last night's episode, so yeah, I think we remember.
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I always found leaving messages on answering machines so awkward. I hate how my voice sounds when recorded. Yes! I do remember the tapes you could buy so you could have a cool message instead of the standard "We are not home, leave a message and we will get back to you." Anyone remember the Seinfeld episode with George's message to the theme of The Greatest American Hero?
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Anyone remember the Seinfeld episode with George's message to the theme of The Greatest American Hero? ]
Love George's answering machine!
Believe it or not, George isn't at home
Please leave a message after the beep.
I must be here, or I'd pick up the phone
Where could I be?
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I like the time where George left a message that he didn't like on a woman's machine. Then he makes it worse and worse by leaving more messages. He then decides to break into her place to get the tape only to find out that she already heard his messages. That was classic.
shareThat was a great episode. He made a comment he liked to eat while talking to a woman so he sounds casual. Lol
<“Every man of courage is a man of his word.” - Pierre Corneille>
Yeah, I definitely remember those!
I believe the one my parents owned actually had two tapes inside the machine as well, in case one tape runs out, it would continue on the other.
My father tried to be funny at the time and left a long pause after saying "Hello". It fooled everybody because they would start talking, only to realize they had been speaking to a recording the entire time. Needless to say, my mother was upset about it and re-recorded the message.
In another instance, my mother accidentally swore during one. She thought she had erased it. All of my relatives heard it and had to point it out to her. How embarrassing.
Nowadays, since my parents still use a landline, it's built into the phone and just plays a standard computerized message. I wish it would have been like that back in the '80s and '90s.
I think most machines had two tapes - one for the outgoing message and one for recording the callers' messages. Sometimes you could set them to only play the outgoing message and never do the beep and record, so you could have a "Dial A (fill in the blank)" line. There were machines made with one tape - so they could be smaller or simpler (less parts to break). The one tape would have both the outgoing message and the recordings. The microprocessor would have to do more work, because after playing the outgoing message, it had to fast forward to the end of the previous recordings. I don't know if it had to remember how far, or if there was a signal recorded after the last message to identify the end(*). Then after recording a new message and hanging up, it had to rewind the tape to the beginning, to be ready for the next call. As more calls were recorded, there would be an increasing delay between the outgoing message and the beep.
(*) there must have been something like this to identify the end of the outgoing message, whether there was one tape or two.
Yes a lot of those recordings people did were dorky. We didn't get one till the early 90s. My dad did the recording at first. He talked real loud into the machine sounding like he was suffering from high blood pressure and made the recording way longer than it needed to be. After about a month and my friends making fun of it, I just recorded over his message with one I created.
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