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MosheFeingold

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3. I recently flew

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Mar 20, 2017, 05:00 PM

Mar 2017

With a cassette recorder from NYC to Santa Fe (with several stops in between).

It was my "new" recorder. I think I bought it about 1980. Black, mono, and great for listening to books on tape. Large mechanical buttons I can use.

You would have thought I brought on a nuclear device the way they reacted.

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Electronics banned from cabins on some Middle Eastern and African flights to U.S. [View all] brooklynite Mar 2017 OP

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