Long live obsolete formats! I'll never forget a job I had in a record store
ca. 1977-78 (Camelot Music, in a mall near St. Louis ... jeez!). We had a
small section of QUAD 8-tracks in stock, and kept getting request for them
from customers who had just bought the new Lincoln Continental. Apparently
that was a new option for the Lincolns, right when the industry was phasing
them out! I can't remember what repertoire we had, or if it satisfied their
easy-listening thirst. Hell, mono would probably have worked at that point
if we had stocked that.
-Rob DeLand
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Roger Kulp <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I sold a working 8-track player for a Dodge on eBay recently.It had seven
> bids.
>
> Roger
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> ________________________________
> From: Steven Smolian <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 12:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] The revival of the audio cassette
>
> I still get calls in my shop for 8-tracks to go into pick-up trucks of the
> period.
>
> Steve Smolian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dennis Rooney
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 11:40 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] The revival of the audio cassette
>
> What can we expect next, an 8-track renaissance?
>
> DDR
>
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Tom Fine
> <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
> > This is bizarre. I would surmise that Korea doesn't have wide use of
> > smart phones with data plans or there aren't yet "all you can eat"
> > streaming music services available. Duped cassettes are sonic junk.
> > There's a cultishness about sticking with a bad-sounding old
> > technology, it's like people wouldn't buy an LP player until no one
> > pressed 78's anymore. Technology advances are slower to make it to
> > low-income markets, but Korea is an up and coming economy so this is
> surprising.
> >
> > -- Tom Fine
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Crosthwait"
> > <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 9:25 AM
> > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] The revival of the audio cassette
> >
> >
> > Speaking of audio cassettes, a few months ago while working on an
> > Asian videotape transfer project, I came across this about Koreans and
> > cassette
> > popularity:
> >
> > http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/**www/news/include/print.asp?**newsIdx=920
> > 90<http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/include/print.asp?newsIdx=9209
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> > Best Regards,
> >
> > David Crosthwait
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> > On Oct 20, 2011, at 6:04 AM, Steve Ramm wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Interesting article in TODAY's Wall St Journal on the revival of
> >> the audio cassette:
> >>
> >> _http://tinyurl.com/3gbj3rx_ (http://tinyurl.com/3gbj3rx)
> >>
> >>
> >> Steve Ramm
> >>
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