Replying to a message of REINHARDT MUELLER to BOB ACKLEY:

 RM> In a message to REINHARDT MUELLER (06-18-07 06:28), BOB ACKLEY wrote:

 BA>> I don't even have that any more.  Except for about a week
 BA>> beginning 9/11/2001  I haven't watched television in 25 or
 BA>> more years, now; when the networks went back to normal
 BA>> programming a week after 9/11/2001 I turned the TV back off.

 RM> I haven't completely....   but today's comedy shows just
 RM> leave me cold.   The old-time network radio comedies
 RM> are better!

So are the old-radio dramas and sitcoms.  That's been true for decades.

 RM> I tried NOT to watch all the wall-to-wall coverage of 9/11.
 RM> I felt it was NOT a good idea for ME especially becuase
 RM> I didn't have any loved ones in that disaster.

 BA>> Turntables are a bit pricey, in the past five or six years
 BA>> I've purchased two of them, new.  One was $450 and the
 BA>> other was $750 (it has a 16" platter rather than the
 BA>> standard 12").

 RM> 16"?  No wonder...  Those are meant for studio use where you
 RM> might have to play 16" transcription discs.

I know.  I have a stack of 16" transcription discs that's about eight inches
high.  Thus the need for the 16" platter.

 BA>> I've heard there's a new one out that doesn't use a needle,
 BA>> apparently it works sort of like a CD player but it reads the
 BA>> bumps in the groove of the record rather than the marks and
 BA>> spaces on a CD; but at about $15K a pop it's out of my price range.

 RM> It took 'em this long to come up with a non-destructive way
 RM> to play vinyl and (assumption) shellac?!?
 RM> If it works as well as the "regular" kind, it would be
 RM> great for radio stations.  It would pay for itself with
 RM> no more needles to wear out and replace!

It actually supposedly works better - and handles warped records just fine.

 RM>>>  * SLMR 2.1a * When ordering, specify 78RPM, 8-track, or Edison
 RM>>> cylinder

 A>>>  I have about a dozen cylinders, not quite
 BA>> 100 8 track cartridges and a
 RM>    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 RM> Gads, what a disaster those things were!!  I'm glad I never
 RM> bought any 8-tracks!

I pick them up at garage sales and auctions.  I have an 8-track *deck* that
goes with my component stereo system.  I can record 8-tracks if I want to.

 BA>> big pile of 78 rpm platters.

 RM> The funny thing is....  It's easier to find players for
 RM> 78's than 8-tracks!  If something was released on an
 RM> 8-track you'll probably be able to find that broken
 RM> 8-track album with a better-sounding CD.

 BA>> Been collecting records for over 45 years, now;
 BA>> last summer I picked up a carload (literally, there was
 BA>> barely enough room for me to squeeze in to drive home)
 BA>> of 78 rpm records at an estate auction.

 RM> Too bad you don't do a radio show...   We had a DJ named
 RM> Madman Moskowitz who had 50,000+ flat friends when he died!

I'm working on it.  Thus far about 30,000 'flat friends.'

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