It looks like Chrysler, not Lincoln, had the in-dash phonograph: [link]
Xander: Just once I'd like to run into a cult of bunny worshippers. Anya: Great. Thank you very much for those nightmares.
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Tom Scola - Jul 03, 2008 6:52:37 am PDT #6874 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
tommyrot - Jul 03, 2008 6:53:22 am PDT #6875 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh yeah, I didn't mean to imply that Lincoln had that option, but I couldn't remember the car that had it.
eta: Also, I was off by two years. Curses!
amych - Jul 03, 2008 6:54:56 am PDT #6876 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Alas, problems abounded with the system: Records skipped as the car encountered uneven surfaces. And an exclusive content arrangement with Columbia meant that drivers could listen only to artists signed to Columbia Records.
The skipping is from the land of "duh" -- but the part that really kills me was that they were shooting themselves in the foot with stupid content lock-in then too. Oh, entertainment industry.
Jon B. - Jul 03, 2008 8:02:35 am PDT #6877 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
drivers could listen only to artists signed to Columbia Records.
Whuh? How could that possibly have been enforced? Would cops pull you over if they heard a non-Columbia artist skipping in your car?
Tom Scola - Jul 03, 2008 8:05:30 am PDT #6878 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Whuh? How could that possibly have been enforced?
There's more here: [link]
They weren't standard 45s, they were custom long-playing 16⅔-rpm records.
Gudanov - Jul 03, 2008 8:09:21 am PDT #6879 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
They weren't standard 45s, they were custom long-playing 16⅔-rpm records.
Ah, a proprietary audio format.
tommyrot - Jul 03, 2008 8:27:13 am PDT #6880 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
This I didn't know:
Chrysler didn’t completely give up, though. The automaker tried again in 1960. This time, the unit was made by RCA and played regular 45-rpm records.
You could stack up to 12 records in the player so that you would not have to change them every three or four minutes.
Huh. My reaction is still, "What were they thinking?"
Gudanov - Jul 03, 2008 9:13:44 am PDT #6881 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
I had a similar reaction to a radio I looked at that sounded interesting at first glance. It was a CD-less Clarion radio that played from a SD card, did the Bluetooth thing, and had auxiliary input. Then I realized that it didn't support SD cards with more than 2GB and only had FM radio, no AM radio.
How do you not have an AM receiver? I mean a kid can make one basically with a wire, a capacitor, and a diode right? It's gotta cost like a few cents a unit.
Tom Scola - Jul 03, 2008 9:15:14 am PDT #6882 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
How do you not have an AM receiver?
If AM radio went away, how long would it be before you noticed?
Pix - Jul 03, 2008 9:16:40 am PDT #6883 of 25501
The status is NOT quo.
In LA? The first day. AM 1070 is our local traffic/weather source, and I listen to them to and from work for at least a few minutes..