[78-L] Victor release date

J. E. Knox rojoknox at metroeast.org
Thu Nov 21 16:27:01 PST 2013


Greetings from FixitLand!

On 19 Nov 2013, at 10:52 PM, Michael Biel wrote:

> Those strange words were used exactly as Rodger indicates.  A dealer
> could telegraph Cyclosis5 Majoic7 franistan9 etc and be charged only one
> word each.  The words made misspellings insignificant because they
> didn't use computers -- they used PEOPLE -- and the words were not easy
> to mistake for the wrong record. ...

And I for one would LOVE to get hold of a listing of all those strange words and the issues to which they refer. Does such a listing exist? I have a small number of those stock sleeves, and plan to throw together a spreadsheet of the data on those sleeve stickers.

Take care,


—
Joe
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“MMEEOOWW!!”—Douglas Fur and Kimberly Fur



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