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Re: Beagle Bros and Wonderful disk drive noises

Subject: Re: Beagle Bros and Wonderful disk drive noises
From: gabe@pgm.com (Gabe M. Wiener)
Date: 1996/07/07
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, comp.sys.apple2
Organization: PGM Recordings / Quintessential Sound, Inc.
References: <4q6p8v$rnc@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <dbryantDt8CzA.6M2@netcom.com> <4q8qfr$bp8@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <31CA02BB.453821FB@swec.com>
Sender: gabe@panix.com

In article <31CA02BB.453821FB@swec.com>,
Carl R. Friend <carl.friend@swec.com> wrote:
>   This sounds amazingly like an electronic equivalent to John Logie
>Baird's mechanical apparatus which was a very early form of television.

Sort of.  The Baird system used a photocell pickup, but it did its scanning
using a disk-scanner developed by a German guy named Nipkow in 1887.

-- 
Gabe Wiener   Dir., PGM Early Music Recordings |"I am terrified at the thought 
A Div. of Quintessential Sound, Inc., New York | that so much hideous and bad
Recording-Mastering-Restoration (212) 586-4200 | music may be put on records 
gabe@pgm.com                http://www.pgm.com | forever."--Sir Arthur Sullivan

References:
- Re: Beagle Bros and Wonderful disk drive noises
  - From: ard12@eng.cam.ac.uk (A.R. Duell)
- Re: Beagle Bros and Wonderful disk drive noises
  - From: dbryant@netcom.com (David K. Bryant)
- Re: Beagle Bros and Wonderful disk drive noises
  - From: ard12@eng.cam.ac.uk (A.R. Duell)
- Re: Beagle Bros and Wonderful disk drive noises
  - From: "Carl R. Friend" <carl.friend@swec.com>

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