
All I had when I was in high school was a Sony cassette deck player/recorder and one of those old radio/turntable combo from the seventies with wooden cabinet (today we'd call it vintage classic). I used to make mixes simply by using the pause switch and was quite creative with it. When I graduated from highschool and got my first job I bought two Technics SL1200
turntables and a shitty mixer on a 20 months credit scheme.