Tape Recorder

We are in the age of CD Player,DVD Player, home theatre, iPOD, mobile phones providing awesome music. But going back to the age of tape recorder gives me a nostalgic feeling. I still remember the day we got tape recorder at our home.Its a "Phillips" brand, 2 in 1 (tape recorder and radio)
The first standing instruction from mom is to get all spiritual cassettes. 1st Cassette is "Shri Venkatesa subrabhatam". 2nd one is "Vishnu Sahasranamam". Myself and my brother used to play Sahasranamam cassette and use to recite the sloha in chorus. I remember writing "Sri Ramajayam" 1008 times and getting one Sahasranamam book. Everyday we use to recite religiously.I still recall Sir Rajaji's voice description about Sahasranamam followed by M.S.Subhalakshmi's "Bhajja Govindam".Mind blowing stuff.
Then we got 7 more Spiritual cassettes before we got the famous "Cassette No.8". I am saying famous because its famous among us (myself and my brother). After sitting for hours together we came up with a set of 12 Tamil film songs. We went to "Best" musical shop near our house to record those songs. The 1 week wait for getting the empty cassette loaded with songs were too much for us. We use to record songs based on our choice.
We got 100's of Cassettes after that , we use to number the cassette and categorize them based on the quality of songs. we use to mark it "Melodious","Foot tapping", etc., We lost few cassettes giving it to friends and relatives . But still we have huge collection at home. Be it Carnatic classical or Hindi/Tamil film songs.From Ariyakudi to A.R.Rahman . From Kishore Kumar to Kollankudi karupaiyee. Name it we have it.
Now I have so many songs in my machine and everywhere music has become rage. But still the age of cassettes and tape recorder ringers in my mind.