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May 19, 2008
The Retro Press — 'All the retro that's fit to post'
Res ipsa loquitur.
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Send us five hundred Wheaties boxtops and the rear view mirror from your '62 VW Beetle and we'll send you Veronica Lake with a fistful of delicious recipes containing lard!!
Posted by: Flautist | May 19, 2008 8:26:52 PM
I was astonished to see this ad for a record player with an optical pickup from back in the days when they were still called "phonographs". Laser turntables have existed for a while now, but this thing dated back to the Second World War!
Then I discovered that the "Photo-Electric Radio-Phonograph" did indeed have an optical pickup of sorts... but the photocell detected light bouncing off a mirror connected to a conventional needle. Which I'm pretty sure you would in fact have to change, though it might indeed have pressed on the record not quite as hard.
Or, perhaps, not; the "Beam of Light pickup" was such a roaring success that it was quietly withdrawn after only two years.
Posted by: Daniel Rutter | May 19, 2008 12:02:35 PM
