Exploring that one weird switch or button on your stereo system or boombox which you probably never knew the purpose of, or didn't even notice.
Time flow:
0:00 Introduction
1:10 Ambiguous terminology
3:03 Bias explained
4:41 Why it's needed
7:12 Example of its use
8:04 Beat Cut alternatives
9:59 Real-world sample
11:36 Still exists today!
12:25 Conclusion
#cassette #boombox #beats
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm0dT-vi0XU
A 1960s product from a company that is still in business today. A nifty way to adjust the volume and channel balance and switch between stereo and mono when listening to headphones.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TINlPKSLwA
An entire PC built into a keyboard -- the Great Wall U310, also sold as the Diablotek and Gigazone U310 and as the Commodore VIC Slim: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVTQjG-n0TE
Video contains music by Julian Croot ("80s Inspired Retro Synth Track"): http://picturedmedia.co.uk/freemusic/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V59YdBfDwQ
A keyboard mechanism from an obscure British/French 1980s home computer that looks like it has never been used, which somehow ended up on eBay in the USA. I don't think I'll be lucky enough to get an Oric Atmos for myself, so hopefully this will go to help someone whose Atmos needs a replacement keyboard.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTCkcJmlFtY
A new reproduction SmartWatch+ real-time clock module from Cybernetic Systems in Australia, for Tandy 1000s and other XT-class PCs, available here: https://www.tindie.com/products/cyberneticsys/tandy-1000-smartwatch/
Y2k-compliant SMWCLOCK driver: ftp://ftp.oldskool.org/pub/tvdog/tandy1000/utilities/smwy2k.zip
My original video about the Tandy 1000SX and XT-CF card: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wfgPGzAcus
Video about Microsoft InPort bus mouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoLo7MnxO6I
Video using Tandy modem to access BBSes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsG0zbWT_DY
Video about IDE-XT hard drives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rgaJqYOPSg
#SepTandy
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpPQUkoSyNE
This radio survived the Cold War, and still plays today on what I believe to be all its original components. It is an Arvin model 951T, circa 1955, in then-fashionable Coral pinkish-orange color. It is a traditional "All American Five" design with miniature tubes on a printed circuit board.
The two triangles on the dial indicate the CONELRAD frequencies of 640 and 1240 kHz, a system used in the USA from 1953 to 1963 and designed to both confuse enemy aircraft which might use radio transmitters as their targets and to broadcast emergency information to the public in the event of a nuclear attack. Thankfully, CONELRAD never had to be used for its intended purpose, and was replaced by the Emergency Broadcast System in 1963.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPoOXBpFW5U
All video effects were done in real time using the built-in special effects of the Sony DCR-IP5 MicroMV Handycam camcorder. The audio was dubbed in later.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JAZ3QPnrHU
A "scoped" nighttime skywave DX recording of Fort Wayne, Indiana's 1190 WOWO on December 5th, 1992, received 460 miles away in eastern Pennsylvania on a Realistic TM-152 tuner in AM Stereo. (WOWO was transmitting the Magnavox AM Stereo system at the time, but they added a 25 Hz pilot tone to allow AM Stereo receivers designed for the Motorola C-Quam system, such as the TM-152, to decode their signal in stereo.) This audio was taken from a Type I non-Dolby cassette recording with no EQ or other sonic enhancement other than a 10 kHz whistle filter. A great example of just how good AM Stereo can sound, even over long-distance skywave reception!
To download an MP3 of this recording, click here: amstereo.org/files/wowo1.mp3
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_5QTkGEflQ