Most of my cassettes melted in the attic. Which is probably a good thing. What would a 60 year old man do with a punk mix tape from 1980. The CD's are all gone, too. They were all transferred to hard disk and sent on to meet there maker at the thrift shop. I hope the poor benefit from my bad taste in music.
I once had a load of albums. That's what they use to call vinyl. I believe the term has now been rendered generically to mean a collection of songs. And I believe that such collections have largely been eliminated by downloading. Most of my vinyl "albums" were replaced in the late 70's. They weighed too much and were a pain every time I moved. I mean what can you do with ten Neil Young albums? Trade them for Joy Division cassettes and lighten you load.
The first recordings I ever did were on 8 track. And, no, not reel-to-reel. Eight track as in the small rectangular plastic boxes filled with tape organized into eight tracks. Talk about a passing phase and a short-lived technological form! I also had an eight track player in my car--an early 1970's Dodge Demon, which is also long gone. After that, I graduated to the high tech world of cassette tape. Since I'm an idiot, I tried to record using two cassette decks. What a mess!
Then came four-track and then ADAT. After that, I had a stand alone hard disk recorder and finally several generations of Mac's stuffed with DP (that sounds bad) and finally an i-Mac with Logic. But I'm putting my foot down at any other changes, however. I've been through too much. I'm old and I give up. The cloud can stay in the sky as far as I'm concerned and streaming services can go down stream out into the ocean.
END OF LONG WINDED OLD MAN STORY