2021-03-26
1 小时 2 分钟Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from four undisclosed locations in the UK.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anna Tyshinski, Andrew Hunter Murray, and James Harkin,
and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days,
and in no particular order, here we go.
Starting with fact number one, and that is Andy.
My fact is that the prototype personal cassette player was a block of wood,
which the inventor carried around in his pocket to make sure it would fit.
That was that was it.
He just wanted something he wanted to make sure that it would be the right size.
And so he did it the simplest way possible.
So when you say prototype this, he didn't think it was making any noise or anything.
I remember when I was in the school orchestra in primary school, I was on the wooden block.
So you know, that is a really it's an instrument, isn't it?
It is an instrument.
Yeah, that's true.
That was the very early prototype,
the idea that was the only song you could play the wooden block parts of children's songs.
Yeah, it was a really early prototype.
And then he worked on it a lot before it became the Walkman.