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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <yPmdndfoPbJxWcTWnZ2dnUVZ_tJi4p2d at giganews.com>,
	"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> 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?

Depends on your definition of "go belly up".  It didn't get
killed like Tucker.  It got bought by Nash to create American
Motors who basicly were not interested in the superior technology
(hmmmm, now where we seen that happen?)
They killed the whole line and some of the better ideas
didn't re-appear in cars until the the 60's and even 70's.

Oh yeah, most of the models we had were 1950-1953.  My Super
Jet was a 1954.  

bill

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