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Originally Posted by radiotvnut
...The 8 1/3 rpm record stayed around until the end of 2000 when the last magazines were recorded on 9" flexible soundsheets...The reason the gov't went with the 8 rpm disc was to achieve more playing time on a record and to prevent the records from being played on standard consumer phonographs should one of these records fall into the hands of someone not enrolled in the gov't talking book program.
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Interesting. I remember in the 80's-90's one of my grandmother's neighbors received talking books from the gov't on cassette, along with a machine that was cased in beige plastic - my hazy memory recalls it looking like an oversized Fisher-Price kid's deck. I wonder if the cassettes were recorded at a non-standard speed?
02-02-2009, 12:45 AM
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