It’s yesterday once more

Even though I had then traded my cassette player for a Sony hi-fi system with a CD tray, and my Walkman for a Discman, it was so difficult to give the cassettes up... but I eventually did in the mid 1990s. — 123rf.com

My earliest recollection of using a cassette tape was when I was just about four or five years old in the early 1970s. My parents had purchased a portable shoebox cassette player which allowed you to record your own voice.

It was just a simple mono recorder and playback unit, and you had to attach an external microphone in order to make a recording. But what an amazement it was at the time!