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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 2
- Thread starter Richland123
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Don't know about anywhere else but here in the UK it's still possible to get these. They tend to have a reputation of being a low-end and cheap cigarette mind you. I personally quite like them though.
- Oct 7, 2000
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- Endorsing artist: Musicman basses
- Oct 7, 2000
- 18,619
- 38,939
- Disclosures
- Endorsing artist: Musicman basses
Never met your friend, but had I, he'd have been tormenting me too. The guys in my post are the mole men from a 2 part episode of superman. Me and my brothers used to call them the baldyheads.
. Just found out now on wikepedia that one of the others was the munchkin city father.
It's actually a woman - the dwarf murderess who appears only at the very end of "Don't Look Now".
Now that you mention it, I remember those guys from the George Reeve Superman series, and recognize one of them from "Wizard" as well. Small world! (NPI)
Who had one of these? The K-Tel Record Selector or Disc-O Selector. They also had the K-Tel Tape Selector for 8-Track Tapes.
K-Tel tempted major record labels into licensing chart hits, and the budget compilations sold by the shed load. And then the brainwave: we've sold them the albums, can we sell a storage system to keep them in? The answer was "Yes!", and the K-Tel "Record Selector" was born.
This device allowed you to flick through your albums automatically. TV ads showed LPs mysteriously sorting themselves. "Runs fast OR slow! Stops automatically! Finger Touch Starting!". As always the reality was more mundane: a black plastic rack, a set of grippers and a half a dozen rubber feet for the base ("moisten before inserting"). Setting it up was easy peasy. Albums were wedged into the grippers, linked by catches. Pull the front album towards you, the catch brought the next forward, until all twenty four albums had whizzed by. Once the palpitations had died down you could master advanced features. Like stopping it in mid-flow and removing an album to play. And, er, that's it. Returning the album you'd chosen was even more exciting. Set the Selector in motion, and it stopped - automatically - at the empty place.
Launched in 1973, collectors should also look for the 1976 relaunch in a redesigned box. Renamed the "Disc-O-Selector", the box showed a more sophisticated selection of LPs, ranging from Simon & Garfunkle, through Perry Como and Mahler's Greatest Hits, to Ray Conniff. Most "Disc-O-Selectors"ended up in that great land-fill site in the sky, but examples do sometimes turn at car-boots. Just don't forget to moisten the tips and screw into all four corners....
And, who can forget the TV commercial?
K-Tel tempted major record labels into licensing chart hits, and the budget compilations sold by the shed load. And then the brainwave: we've sold them the albums, can we sell a storage system to keep them in? The answer was "Yes!", and the K-Tel "Record Selector" was born.
This device allowed you to flick through your albums automatically. TV ads showed LPs mysteriously sorting themselves. "Runs fast OR slow! Stops automatically! Finger Touch Starting!". As always the reality was more mundane: a black plastic rack, a set of grippers and a half a dozen rubber feet for the base ("moisten before inserting"). Setting it up was easy peasy. Albums were wedged into the grippers, linked by catches. Pull the front album towards you, the catch brought the next forward, until all twenty four albums had whizzed by. Once the palpitations had died down you could master advanced features. Like stopping it in mid-flow and removing an album to play. And, er, that's it. Returning the album you'd chosen was even more exciting. Set the Selector in motion, and it stopped - automatically - at the empty place.
Launched in 1973, collectors should also look for the 1976 relaunch in a redesigned box. Renamed the "Disc-O-Selector", the box showed a more sophisticated selection of LPs, ranging from Simon & Garfunkle, through Perry Como and Mahler's Greatest Hits, to Ray Conniff. Most "Disc-O-Selectors"ended up in that great land-fill site in the sky, but examples do sometimes turn at car-boots. Just don't forget to moisten the tips and screw into all four corners....
And, who can forget the TV commercial?
My dad described that as a way to store 24 albums in the space that 40 would otherwise take up.
- Oct 7, 2000
- 18,619
- 38,939
- Disclosures
- Endorsing artist: Musicman basses
- Oct 7, 2000
- 18,619
- 38,939
- Disclosures
- Endorsing artist: Musicman basses
My brother had digicomp II. 
Was that by heathkit? I know it was bought in either radioshack or lafayette. Pretty sure it was radioshack.
Was that by heathkit? I know it was bought in either radioshack or lafayette. Pretty sure it was radioshack.
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