[78-L] "You Gotta Be Kidding" department

[David Lennick]

"Confounditandplaguetakeit"?! Was that on that website of Elizabethan curses? I'll have to see if I still have the link..

dl


 
> Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 22:04:13 -0400
> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] "You Gotta Be Kidding" department
> 
> 
> 
> >>> Oboy. Hiss, misalignment, speed flux, flutter, tape jams
> >>> ..how we've missed you. dl
> 
> From: thatcher at mediaguide.com
> >> I see irony in 78 fanatics complaining about fidelity
> >> and playback problems.
> >> Thatcher Graham Senior Field Engineer Mediaguide
> 
> 
> I see irony in this article about the comeback of an antiquated format 
> (that never was so good in the first place) is in a publication called 
> THE TELEGRAPH!!!!!
> 
> 
> On 8/2/2010 8:20 PM, Cary Ginell wrote:
> > Who? Us complain? Surely you jest. Cary Ginell
> 
> Most of us were open-reel folks who never much liked cassettes in the 
> first place. But you do have a point. For instance, Steve Barr was 
> able to resurrect a melted cassette -- what would have happened to a 78 
> left on that same dashboard in the same sun??
> 
> One of the reasons I hated cassettes is that they were too damn small. 
> They were too easy to lose. NOW I deal with R-DATs, 8mm video, DV 
> video, and CAMERA SD CARDS and those dang fool things are even smaller. 
> Yesterday I was changing the mini-SD card in my phone and DROPPED IT, 
> and it took me ten minutes to find the confounditandplaguetakeit thing.
> 
> SIZE MATTERS!!!
> 
> Mike (i like 16-inch ets) Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
> >>
> >> Michael Shoshani wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 19:27 -0400, David Lennick wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/5261963/Rewind-to-the-1980s-as-the-cassette-tape-makes-a-comeback.html
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> *thump* Not to *thump* mention auto*thump*matic gain control and its
> >>> artifacts. And dr p sp ts.
> 
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