Tape? Oh, yeah! 
 
I started with two no-name cassette decks c. 1968, then moved up to a Craig r+r with sound on sound in 1970.  Then came a Teac 3340in the early '80's (with 15 ips no less!), then I added an Akai 4 track r+r to do all sort of nifty bouncing/mixdown tricks!  In 1984 I stepped up to a Fostex A-8 (which I still have), then finally made the switch to digital about 15 years ago.  These days everybody is chasing the "warm" analog sound.  Personally, I was glad to get away from it.  
 
Fun thread btw.

Slugbaby
I love SPlat, but still miss tape.
 

I agree with one out of those two.

I started with the Teac 4 track, but only 7.5 ips.  Cassettes were the only mixdown I could afford.  Then I got a revox 2 track (1/4 track @ 15ips).  Then a Tascam 38.

I still have boxes full of ADAT tapes. I bought an ADAT about 8 years ago and transferred them all into SONAR. Then I sold the ADAT but hept the tapes.

I started with a...yeah, then a...and later I got a...now I have...
 
Sigh.
 
It's too boring to type.

jamesg1213
I started with a...yeah, then a...and later I got a...now I have...
 
Sigh.
 
It's too boring to type.

Besides you have digital tracks to deliver, ya?

 
Band days - TEAC reel to reel thingummy doo daa - don't know the details as I was never much interested in that side of things back then. It was all just pushing buttons, twisting knobs and sliding slidey things whilst making no discernable difference to the sound to me. These days I have read many things, listened to many experts and spent many hours trying to educate myself in the dark arts of audio mixing and I have now learnt to use a computer mouse and some software to make no discernable difference to the sound.
 
 
I still have this bad boy because I still haven't convinced myself that I won't ever find a use for it again
 

paulo
 
I have now learnt to use a computer mouse and some software to make no discernable difference to the sound.
 

In 1970, my brother Mike and I received identical Philips cassette recorders for Christmas. We would record ourselves on one and then play it back while playing along and recording on the other one. When our dad let us use his Grundig R to R, things got real exciting. Sounded like &%$@ but it was fun.
While in the Air Force in 1979, I purchased a TEAC A-3440 and spent many happy moments in my dorm room recording. Dream Girl on my soundclick site is one of those songs.
In the mid-eighties, Mike and I recorded several songs on his Fostex 4-track recorder (which can be heard on my soundclick site), The Fields Brothers Band.
Around 2000, I wanted to start recording again and bought myself a TASCAM 4-track Portastudio, which I never used much because my brother the programmer convinced me to try computer recording. I got Cakewalk Music Creator 2003, which came with a MIDI to gameport cable and the tape machine got put in the closet except for special needs.
Like recording Anna Young singing "no, I gotta go" in her grandma's living room on the song New Year's Day, or recording Carla Cook in the conference room at work during lunch hour singing "lost" for the BGV in Lost In You.
Recorded about 15 minutes of rainfall on it and am still waiting for a project to emerge that I can use it in.

When I was a kid I had 2 x Philips 3" reel to reels that I would record and overdub with.
Then my parents got a Grundig 3 in one Radio, Record Player and tape deck. The deck allowed Sound on Sound recording and was very advanced for its time. Then finally I got my own Teac 3340 which I kept until I got an Akai MG1212 recorder in about 1986.

Love affair with Amiga computers started around then and so began my digital phase, which continues to this day. That's 30+ years of digital and 20 years of analog tape before that.