Rewinding rental videos was a pain. I remember my local store used to find people for not rewinding rental tapes.
I still make that joke when I return DVD's sometimes. I would open it and look at the DVD as I return it, and say 'just checking that I rewinded it' - the 18 year old clerks have no idea what I am talking about.
Until you did one spin wrong and it would start spinning the other way :)
It's interesting though that the most common 6-sided pencil would fit perfectly for the cassettes. Had the hole been just a bit bigger or smaller and it wouldn't have worked.
I remember a friend in junior high using a pen to rewind to spare his walkman batteries…
We did it because Pioneer car stereos took forever to rewind. They went faster on fast forward then the rewind (so flip, ff, flip). I really wish I could get a transcript of the meeting that affected the rewind speed.
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Rewinding rental videos was a pain. I remember my local store used to find people for not rewinding rental tapes.
I still make that joke when I return DVD's sometimes. I would open it and look at the DVD as I return it, and say 'just checking that I rewinded it' - the 18 year old clerks have no idea what I am talking about.
The "spin it using a pen" technique was the true winner.
Until you did one spin wrong and it would start spinning the other way :)
It's interesting though that the most common 6-sided pencil would fit perfectly for the cassettes. Had the hole been just a bit bigger or smaller and it wouldn't have worked.
I remember a friend in junior high using a pen to rewind to spare his walkman batteries…
We did it because Pioneer car stereos took forever to rewind. They went faster on fast forward then the rewind (so flip, ff, flip). I really wish I could get a transcript of the meeting that affected the rewind speed.