[78-L] turntable question

[Don Chichester]

IIRC, a friend had an Onyko player that did this.  Big bucks.

Don
 
> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:56:35 -0500
> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] turntable question
> 
> L78rpm at aol.com wrote:
> > A friend writes of of a turntable on which there was a tone arm that would 
> > move to the centre of the record and then "slowly move to the edge before 
> > playing". He says that it wasn't a changer. What would this have been?
> > 
> > pc
> 
> To answer the second question, this was in the LP era, somewhere in the 
> 1980s. The idea was to be able to have the turntable go to a specific 
> track like a CD player could. The tone-arm had a light and sensor which 
> would first quickly scan the record from the center to the outside and 
> note in its memory where the bands were from the increased reflection of 
> the light in the spaces between the bands. It could then locate any of 
> them, play them in any order, or skip over one you didn't like. It was 
> a particularly stupid idea!!! The Rabco straight-line arm might have 
> had this feature, but I do remember a radial-arm player that also did 
> this. 
> 
> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com 
> 
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