Back in 1949

[Dahlia]

On today's date January 10, 1949, RCA introduced the 45 RPM record. I had lots of these as a kid!

 

[flowerbug]

On today's date January 10, 1949, RCA introduced the 45 RPM record. I had lots of these as a kid!

we had one of those wind-up 78s which worked, then there were 33s and 45s and vinyls instead of the harder ones that were made of out something else that was in those 78s.

i never have messed with the wire spools or wax cylinders.

computers at least make it possible to store the information in a more reproduceable format, but that doesn't mean that the little machines that can read those formats will stick around as we've seen the 8" floppies and large reels of tapes change into other things like dvds and bluerays and now SSDs and microcards or whatevers, but at least the bits can usually be recovered in some way as long as the physical media doesn't fall apart completely.

however, just to keep things interesting they're now able to read the scrolls that were wrapped up and preserved in some of the cities around Mt. Etna by various eruptions. can you imagine that? something written thousands of years ago, put in some place, smothered by ashes and somehow kept intact enough even though burned or transformed so they can't be unrolled but they can be imaged and read...

 

[digitS']

You must recognize these .

Jewelry is being made in this shape nowadays.

Steve

 

[Dahlia]

we had one of those wind-up 78s which worked, then there were 33s and 45s and vinyls instead of the harder ones that were made of out something else that was in those 78s.

i never have messed with the wire spools or wax cylinders.

computers at least make it possible to store the information in a more reproduceable format, but that doesn't mean that the little machines that can read those formats will stick around as we've seen the 8" floppies and large reels of tapes change into other things like dvds and bluerays and now SSDs and microcards or whatevers, but at least the bits can usually be recovered in some way as long as the physical media doesn't fall apart completely.

however, just to keep things interesting they're now able to read the scrolls that were wrapped up and preserved in some of the cities around Mt. Etna by various eruptions. can you imagine that? something written thousands of years ago, put in some place, smothered by ashes and somehow kept intact enough even though burned or transformed so they can't be unrolled but they can be imaged and read...

I wonder if they ever find music in those old digs!?