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I remember around the late '50s or early '60s the J.C. Whitney catalog had a automobile turntable for playing vinyl records. The record would go in vertically and the stylus was spring loaded against it.
The problem was in order to have enough pressure on the stylus to prevent skipping tracks when driving on rough roads (and ALL roads were rough in those days) it would destroy the records with just a few plays. Needless to say, they didn't sell very well, but the need was recognized and so 8-track was invented. |
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8 Track tapes actually had better sound quality than the original cassette tapes. When Cassettes were first available the sound quality was not very good. It was a smaller width tape. Later the quality improved with the introduction of compact cassettes and 8 track disappeared. Cassettes are made with polyester base tape, have just over a 1/8th inch tape width, and a slow playback speed of 1 7/8 ips, thus contributing to a limited dynamic range and frequency response.
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From 40 years later it seems like it always changed tracks in the middle of a song.
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Ahhh... the days of toxic chemicals
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LMAO!!! They left out another bad one, the Mattel VacuForm that super heated a small sheet of thin plastic which you could then vacuum mold over a mold. I also remember that most cars in the 1960s didn’t have seat belts, at least in the back seats where the kids were. And it was perfectly legal to drive your pickup down the highway with the kids in the bed of the truck! Me thinks they were secretly trying to get rid of some of us Babyboomers.
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Come to think of it, the Pogo Stick was pretty dangerous too. I saw a lot of kids crash to the ground on those things. And probably the most dangerous toy of the era was the BB gun. Little Ralphie's mom was right, you can put your eye out. But somehow we survived and very few serious injuries occurred. Today kids ride skateboards into the air doing loops and all kinds of bone (and neck of course) breaking stunts. Plus they ride mini bikes and ATVs over obstacle courses when they are still years away from being able to get a license to drive a car. Nature's way of illustrating Darwinism, and thinning the herds!
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