Replying to a message of Reinhardt Mueller to CINDI MARSHALL:

 RM> In a message to SHAWN HIGHFIELD (05-28-07 16:48), CINDI MARSHALL
 RM> wrote:

 CM>> They don't have VH1 on your cable system???
 CM>> I thought VH1 was on every cable system.

 RM> Believe it or not, there are some people like me who don't
 RM> have cable, or satellite.... just the old skyhook!

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

 RM> I wait for everything to come on broadcast TV just like when
 RM> we were kids!

 SH>>>   Last night, the wife and I sat around drinking beer and listening
 SH>>> to 80's hair metal re-living my past. (She's too young to rememebr
 SH>>> the 80's like me, but at least she enjoys the music!)  Need to hunt
 SH>>> down another needle for my player though this one is starting to
 SH>>> skip a bit. :(

 CM>> You use a turntable?  I thought they went out with the 80's hair
 CM>> metal.....

 RM> They still make turntables... In fact I heard about one that
 RM> even has a USB port on it which is designed to make it easy for
 RM> you to convert vlnyl to CD's.   I don't think it had a 78 RPM
 RM> speed and stylus for those who go back that far.

Turntables are a bit pricey, in the past five or six years I've purchased two
of them, new.  One was $450 and the other was $750 (it has a 16" platter
rather than the standard 12").  I've heard there's a new one out that doesn't
use a needle, apparently it works sort of like a CD player but it reads the
bumps in the groove of the record rather than the marks and spaces on a CD;
but at about $15K a pop it's out of my price range.

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

 I have about a dozen cylinders, not quite 100 8 track cartridges and a
big pile of 78 rpm platters.  Been collecting records for over 45 years, now;
last summer I picked up a carload (literally, there was barely enough room for
me to squeeze in to drive home) of 78 rpm records at an estate auction.

--- FleetStreet 1.19+