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> -----Original Message----- > From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List > Sent to me by a friend... > Karl > A photo from earlier this month from the Warner Brothers studios in Los > Angeles. > http://www.home.earthlink.net/~richbreen/Gallery/source/the_future.htm > Well, as I sit here I'm using an "obsolete" IBM Pentium III machine. I bought it a year ago for Cdn$149...I could buy a faster one, same processor, for Cdn$59 according to the latest flyer. To my immediate right sits an 80286 machine...which cost me $5 about nine years ago. It has one assigned task, which it still does well... host a dBASE III+ (came with the machine) database. Should I so desire, I could still type documents or construct simple spreadsheets. Current value? -$10, since it has to have its "dangerous contaminants" removed before it can be accepted by the state of Michigan, where Canadian garbage is exiled! I have a working (albeit decade-old) cassette-capable "mini-boombox" built by Sony...still works fine. I have a forty)(?) year old "record player" modified to provide line-level output...it needs only a new needle, and I have identified a source therefor. I also have a Brunswick "Ultona" console wind-up phonograph...for which I can buy steel needles and reproduction parts should I need them. For that matter, all I need to "play" (i.e. get recognizable sound from) a shellac 78 is something which has a centre pin/spindle, a pointed "needle" and something to serve as a diaphraghm! I could stick a straight pin through a 4x6 card, use a dowel (or appropriately-sized twig) set into a base as a "spindle," and turn the record by hand...and recognizable (though inaccurate) sound reproduction would ensue! Try THAT with a CD or CD-R... Steven C. Barr