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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3

#341
^ They still make a similar product. The item is a cup like container for paint that has a funnel shaped lid that has a removable top. The "funnel" part penetrates into the paint that is being contained so if the container is knocked over the chance of spillage is significantly reduced.
 
#342
ZenG said:
I haven't seen one of these for decades:-

back in the late 60's I was in a stereo equip. store.

There was this console stereo vinyl record player made by Toshiba..........I think it was called a "Toshiba Boston".

Instead of a needle cartridge it had a sensor eye on the pickup arm which interpreted info from the surface of the record.....therefor there was no needle wear.

This was way before cd's or Lazer discs etc.etc .

The concept quickly died ...I only saw that model for sale for about one year........and the technology at the time wasn't repeated......


Of course much much later along came the cd and Lazer disc by others with exactly the same idea.

Toshiba was way ahead of it's time with this.....but for some reason it didn't catch on....

Just like 4-channel stereo never took off......saw those "quad" stereo units in stores for a couple of years
in the seventies......but they never caught on either really....
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Here is a laser turntable (or optical turntable) similar to what you described. This one was made by a company called LSP in the 80s.

A laser turntable (or optical turntable) is a phonograph that plays LPs (and other gramophone records) using laser beams as the pickup – the way a compact disc player plays CDs – instead of using a stylus as in conventional turntables.

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#343
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Terrible picture but... miles of cassette or VHS tape in the hedges beside roads. I remember seeing this all the time as a kid. Presumably people found that their car's tape player wrecked their cassettes and threw them out the window in frustration.

I guess mp3 players have rendered this sight a thing of the past. It is probably a good thing for biodiversity, as animals probably chomped on that stuff quite frequently, but I always thought it looked quite merry.
 
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ZenG said:
Now that vinyl is making a comeback I wonder if this type of technology will catch on as applied to vinyl records....

How is the sound quality?
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^This. It sounds like a great idea if the sound quality is there. I wonder if it would be cost-effective in limited quantities. I would imagine a lot of vinyl lovers would give it a try. If I still had my LP collection, I'd buy one.
 
#347
ZenG said:
Richland 123:-

Is that pic of a unit that belongs to you?


Now that vinyl is making a comeback I wonder if this type of technology will catch on as applied to vinyl records....

How is the sound quality?
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ZenG,

Sorry to say I do not own one. I love the concept and if they were made now, I would like to have one since I still own well over 5,000 vinyl albums.
 
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Joe Nerve said:
Dang! More things I'd never have thought of or remembered if not for this thread. I remember those styrofoam planes well.
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Are these no longer around? My local post office sold them when I was a kid. They probably still have a few in stock. I never saw flying hot dogs or eyeballs, usually just historic fighter planes. If you were playing with one of these things with a group of people, somebody would always end up being too rough with them and they would break up in mid air.
 
#357
Had a similar experience. I bought mine from the machine at the Winchell's Donuts down the street. Mine was the 70s standard issue with the pull handles and paneling:

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I was a Winston guy.

Joe Nerve said:
Those candy machines bring back crazy memories. I started smoking cigarettes at a really young age, and bought my first packs out of an old machine that looked exactly like those, in the laundromat around the corner from my house. 45 cents a pack! They cost 65 everywhere else, but the machine was outdated, and the cigarettes all stale. Pretty sure I was the only one who ever used the machine as remember each brand selling out, and then the machine was gone. Had an enormous sense of excitement whenever I had my very own full pack of cigarettes. They seemed magical or something for some reason.

I even remember the brands they had; Raleigh, Kent, lucky strike, belair, and a few others. They had Marlboro, but they emptied out before all the others.
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I quit smoking over 20 years ago, and never really get any urges anymore. For some reason though cigarette machines make me miss it. I think its because of the excitement that was tied into my early smoking years. I bought most of my cigarettes out of machines then because I was too young and embarrassed to ask at a counter. I was smoking regularly in the 5th grade. At least a half a pack a day, which went quickly to a pack a day in hs, and 2 1/2 to 3 packs a day in my 20s. I don't think anyone can afford that kind of habit these days, at least not in NY. Pretty sure cigarettes are around $12 a pack. That's frikken insane! Would have cost me about $900 a month for my smoking habit. Would have had to start holding up bodegas :). But they were called grocery stores back then.

Oh yeah... I owned Karbala, too! Think we played like 3 times. Yet another thing from the past that would have never revisited my mind if not for this thread. I wonder how many times I've stated now that this is my favorite TB thread. :)
 

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