Old Tech thread

[Karapace]

Not exactly ancient tech but one thing I find curious is that my old 1995 Technics CD player (seperates sterio system) will play CD's that my modern portable CD player won't. The modern system struggles with CD's produced by small time artists (You know the sort you buy at a gig. Yes they still sell them around here.) The Technics desk will play anything (music wise)

 

[farntfar]

This is probably due to the closure, or not, of the disk.

When you cut a CD (or DVD) with one of the various pieces of software available (NTI etc or even the windows programs) you have an option to leave the session open, so that you can add more later. And similarly the disk as a whole.
Closed at session level only doesn't allow addition to the current session but allows creation of a new session to use the unused space.
If a small time artist, to use your term, only closes the session, it would generally still be read by older machines, but not necessarily newer ones, which might expect a closed disk.
Major CD or DVD producers would always close both the session and disk.

 

[Karapace]

This is probably due to the closure, or not, of the disk.

When you cut a CD (or DVD) with one of the various pieces of software available (NTI etc or even the windows programs) you have an option to leave the session open, so that you can add more later. And similarly the disk as a whole.
Closed at session level only doesn't allow addition to the current session but allows creation of a new session to use the unused space.
If a small time artist, to use your term, only closes the session, it would generally still be read by older machines, but not necessarily newer ones, which might expect a closed disk.
Major CD or DVD producers would always close both the session and disk.

Interesting. That makes a lot of sense.

 

[Danny McG]

The world's first digital photo (a picture of some engineers six month old son) was created way back in 1957

 

[Harpo]

Fidelity AVS2000

Audio-visual system, Fidelity AVS 2000, combined television, record deck, cassette deck and radio, plastic and metal in a wooden casing, stereo, MW LW FM, automatic stop cassette deck with 'computer compatible data recorder', cassette counter, button

Audio-visual system, Fidelity AVS 2000, combined television, record deck, cassette deck and radio, plastic and metal in a wooden casing, stereo, MW LW FM, automatic stop cassette deck with 'computer compatible data recorder', cassette counter, buttons for reset, record, play, rewind...

collections.hampshireculture.org.uk

 

[Pyan]

Everything in one package. The only things missing are good quality sound, a decent picture and an attractive design.

 

[mosaix]

Everything in one package. The only things missing are good quality sound, a decent picture and an attractive design.

There is space for a reel-to-reel beneath if required. Although changing tapes might be a bit difficult.

 

[Vertigo]

There is space for a reel-to-reel beneath if required. Although changing tapes might be a bit difficult.

Oh lord that reminds of of the time, before home video recording, when we all had to sit in complete silence as my elder brother recorded top of the pops on a huge reel to reel recorder using a microphone. I don't think top quality was a major requirement, but if we dared to cough or make any other noise there would be serious grief to come!

 

[mosaix]

Oh lord that reminds of of the time, before home video recording, when we all had to sit in complete silence as my elder brother recorded top of the pops on a huge reel to reel recorder using a microphone. I don't think top quality was a major requirement, but if we dared to cough or make any other noise there would be serious grief to come!

You're right. I'd forgotten about the requirement of a microphone. We used to go through the same recording the Pick of the Pops top twenty count-down with Alan Freeman(?) on Sundays(?). Intro, I seem to remember, was 'At the Sign of the Swinging Cymbal' - still resonates in my head and brings back memories from 70 years ago!

 

[mosaix]

Brings back memories of DJs Smashy & Nicey and their 'charity work'. They were finally demoted to the 'graveyard shift' on 'Radio Quiet'.

 

[Ray Zdybrow]

Fidelity AVS2000

Audio-visual system, Fidelity AVS 2000, combined television, record deck, cassette deck and radio, plastic and metal in a wooden casing, stereo, MW LW FM, automatic stop cassette deck with 'computer compatible data recorder', cassette counter, button

Audio-visual system, Fidelity AVS 2000, combined television, record deck, cassette deck and radio, plastic and metal in a wooden casing, stereo, MW LW FM, automatic stop cassette deck with 'computer compatible data recorder', cassette counter, buttons for reset, record, play, rewind...

collections.hampshireculture.org.uk

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Crap. How would you take a selfie?

 

[Pyan]

Coin-operated manual typewriter, used in the USA in libraries in the 40s and 50s. Apparently, Ray Bradbury wrote the first draft of Fahrenheit 451 on a machine like this.

When Ray Bradbury was writing his iconic novel Fahrenheit 451, he composed the original version of the story at some point in the late 1940s (the precise date appears to be uncertain) when he had a newborn baby at home and wanted peace and quiet in which to write. He went to the basement of the Powell Library at UCLA and used one of the rental typewriters for 20 cents an hour. $9.80 later, he had a functional draft.
More at Open Culture.

 

[HareBrain]

Intro, I seem to remember, was 'At the Sign of the Swinging Cymbal' - still resonates in my head and brings back memories from 70 years ago!

There is a version of "Pick of the Pops" on Radio 2 at 1pm-3pm on Saturday, hosted by Gary Davies. They pick two years from the 60s-90s and play most of the top 20 from those years. "At the Sign of the Swinging Cymbal" is still the intro tune and used for the countdown before number one.

 

[2DaveWixon]

 

[Harpo]

 

[dask]

 

[dask]

 

[paranoid marvin]

And everyone thought he had a flat...

 

[hitmouse]

Back when people took hifi seriously.

 

[Danny McG]

Only 23 years ago