[78-L] fwd: The Fading Sounds of Analog Technology

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And sometimes the analog technology will refuse to completely go away and  
quietly die.  I remember the early digital watches back in the very early  
1970's, the ones with the red LED numbers that only showed the time when  you 
pushed a button in order that battery life would be preserved.  At that  
time I recall an editorial in a electronics trade rag that predicted the total 
 obsolescence of analog time pieces in the next few years and the  
soon-to-be-anachronistic terms such as 'clockwise' and 'counter-clockwise' (or  
'anti-clockwise' to some) and 'clock in', 'clock out', 'quarter past the hour',  
etc.  That didn't exactly happen...
 
Mike in Phoenix (a retired electronics engineer)
 
 
 
In a message dated 3/4/2011 10:53:39 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
malcolm at 78data.com writes:

Aw hell,  why don't you break down and get them an RCA 45rpm changer and 
some rock n  roll records?
As far as the radio dial goes, I can scan through the  stations on my 
digital car radio. Granted, it ain't quite the same but it  kinda 
approximates spinning a dial, so they can't be totally  clueless.
Mal

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On 3/4/2011 6:54 AM, Michael Shoshani  wrote:
> My children (12, 15, 18) have never heard the sound of a rotary  "click"
> television tuner. My two oldest have heard a rotary dial  phone, but not
> my youngest. None are conversant with the sound of a  radio tuner betwee
> stations, since modern radios have digital tuning  that can be punched
> in, nor are they familiar with the chatter and  plop of a record changer.
>
> They are familiar with records, but  only because I have a spring-driven
> internal horn talking  machine.
>
> MS
>
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