In a message dated 5/13/2009 1:35:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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When my parents went shopping for our first TV in the early Fifties,
no one was looking at the picture or listening to the sound; it was all
about furniture.
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In 1900 (when a dollar was a dollar), Columbia offered the Multiplex
Graphophone Grand, with triple stereo wax cylinders, each 14" long, for only
$1000. F.O.B. Bridgeport, Conn.
Not many were sold.
Allen
_www.phonobooks.com_ (http://www.phonobooks.com)
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