Replying to a message of Roy J. Tellason to Charles Angelich:

 CA>> I am anxious to get my vinyl onto CDs before it is too late. I've
 CA>> already lost a few Ventures albums to careless handling and a Larry
 CA>> Adler album my daughters tell me would cost $300 US to replace. :-\

 RJT> You're not the only one.

 RJT> Not only that,  but the fact that I don't have my turntable set up at
 RJT> this point and don't think that there's a place in this small
 RJT> apartment for me to do so.  So I have all this stuff on vinyl that
 RJT> hasn't been touched in a bunch of years...

'all this stuff'??  I have about 95 linear feet of shelf space devoted
to vinyl LP's, another 200 or more feet of shelf space devoted to vinyl
45's (actually they're in file cabinet drawers), another
50 feet or so of 10" 78 rpm laquer, bakelite and vinyl (depending on
era) records, about nine feet of 12" 78 rpm mostly bakelite records
and nearly 300 CD's.  Approximately 30,000 disks altogether (the era from,
say, 1935 to about 1975 is pretty well covered but the timeline extends
somewhat longer in both directions).  All because my dad kept yelling at me
when I was a kid, he didn't want me wasting my money on 'that garbage'
(late 1950's and early 1960's popular music).

 RJT> The other aspect of it is the convenience of the digital format.  I
 RJT> can do things with playlists and such,  not hear the tracks that I
 RJT> don't like as much all that often,  stuff like that.  And make
 RJT> *backup copies*.  Or burn my own CDs with what I want on 'em and in
 RJT> what order.

 RJT> I gotta get going with this stuff...

Me too.  I've got this rack mount system down in the basement that has
fourteen SCSI CD-ROM drives in it...... (like most of the stuff here at the
Boneyard it was a 'get it out of here before it goes in the dumpster'
situation).

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