[Info-vax] IE8 got me too :-( Sorry Jeff.

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <paulranderson-1A2058.08064022012010 at news.charter.net>,
> 	Paul Anderson <paulranderson at charter.net> writes:
>> In article 
>> <8862fd48-95fa-420d-b448-6413f275c2e3 at k17g2000vbm.googlegroups.com>,
>>  Alan Feldman <alanfeldman48 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 16.5? Really? I thought it was 16. I've seen 33s, 45s, and even a 78, 
>>> but never a 16(.5?).
>> Actually, the speeds were 16 2/3, 33 1/3, 45 and 78.26086957.  
> 
> Yeah, that's probably more accurate than mine.  I claim senior moment.
> 
>> Apparently, there was no exact standard for "78" and I always assumed 
>> until looking into it today that 78 was the exact RPM.
> 
> Considering the speed regulation :-) of the machines that played them,
> what would you expect?  (Yes, I still have a windup Victrola that
> actually works, but I wouldn't subject any of my collection to actually
> being played on the beast!)
> 
>> 33 1/3 was chosen exactly, and 16 5/6 was half of that, used for longer 
>> symphonic pieces that could then fit uninterrupted on one side.  The 
>> sound quality suffered, but today's listeners to MP3 files probably 
>> wouldn't notice.  ;-)
> 
> I never saw music on them other than jingles.  My brother has about a
> half-dozen of them that contain commercials for the Hudson Motor Car. :-)
> (we were a Hudson family.  Over time we had in our house two Hornets,
> two Wasps, a Commodore and my First car was a Hudson Super Jet with
> a flat head 6 with high compression aluminum head.   :-)  Sadly I went
> in the Army and had to give it up before having the chance to get the
> fuel injection kit from Clifford Engineering in CA who ran the Hudson
> Racing Team.)
> 
> bill
> 

Didn't Hudson go belly up in the late 1940s or early 1950s?