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The Radio 3 Boards > Collectors Resource > Audio and Hi-Fi Equipment > Ditch your ipods, minidiscs etc
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Author Topic: Ditch your ipods, minidiscs etc  (Read 310 times)
Andy D
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« on: 16:18:09, 28-03-2008 »
and get yourself a phonautograph. It can't actually play anything back though Undecided



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7318180.stm
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« Reply #1 on: 22:29:58, 28-03-2008 »
But Charlotte couldn't cope with this news! Cheesy

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7318173.stm
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
Andy D
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« Reply #2 on: 23:15:44, 28-03-2008 »
I've heard her get the giggles several times on the News Quiz so it doesn't surprise me.
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« Reply #3 on: 16:53:15, 31-03-2008 »
150 years old, and we can still hear the recording. I'd like to see an iPod hold onto an mp3 for that long!

(The world's oldest recording, and it's made from smoke - am I the only one who finds that magical?)
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« Reply #4 on: 17:22:49, 31-03-2008 »
Quote from: Earl Cornell, quoted at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7318180.stm
"We had a tuning fork side by side with the recording, so you can correct the sound and speed variations."

What, really?
A tuning fork?

Quote from: ...trj... on 16:53:15, 31-03-2008
(The world's oldest recording, and it's made from smoke - am I the only one who finds that magical?)
No, you aren't. Wink
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