Xander ,'Beneath You'
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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?"
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.
How do you not have an AM receiver?
If AM radio went away, how long would it be before you noticed?
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..
Pretty quick, it's the source of local news and pretty much all sports scores and games.
Huh. My reaction is still, "What were they thinking?"
Reviews of the first in car CD players said the same things. I remember my first home CD player in 1983, you could make the thing skip by walking heavily near it.
My clock radio wakes me to AM750, so I'd also notice pretty fast. Without AM, I wouldn't have the city's best news, best traffic reporting and best meteorologist. I have to go elsewhere during parts of the day, when the right-wing talk shows are on, but I know the schedule well enough that I can click back for the news, weather and traffic with minimum impact on my blood pressure.
SYCTYD? Do they use computers?
oh dammit.
clearly a bad post.