Board:   [DoveNet] Hobby Corner
Subject: Re: Turntables and LPs
From:    Nightfox
Date:    Thu Aug 19, 2021 12:13

@VIA: DIGDIST
  Re: Re: Turntables and LPs
  By: Brian Rogers to Nightfox on Thu Aug 19 2021 10:44 am

 BR> Do you recall 8-tracks?? Great in theory, horrible in design! One used to
 BR> see smashed 8-tracks and yards of mylar stretched out along roads like we
 BR> did plastic bags just a few years ago LOL

I know of 8-tracks but I've never actually used one.  I'm probably too young..  By the time I was growing up, cassette tapes were very common.  I've never even seen an 8-track player in a car in my lifetime, unless perhaps it was an older car.

 BR> Yes they were convenient but then again back then radio was of a better
 BR> quality product to listen to. Now it's all canned by a computer - which is
 BR> why I got out of the industry!

What do you mean by"canned by a computer"?

Nightfox

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