Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-jon!moroney From: moroney@jon.DEC Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Turntable speeds Message-ID: <3779@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Sat, 29-Sep-84 11:05:14 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3779 Posted: Sat Sep 29 11:05:14 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Oct-84 04:11:02 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 12 My grandfather was legally blind the last few years of his life and he subscribed to the talking book program sponsered by the Library of Congress. He got a special cassette player and a special turntable to play the talking books. The turntable was at 8-1/3 RPM! The special records seemed to last forever. It had pretty good frequency response if all you are interested is 300-3000 Hz :-) Unfortunately, he was unable to use it since he lost his coordination, too. The cassette player had 4 tracks and also ran a lot slower than normal (15/16 IPS - eat your hearts out, golden ears :-) ) The average book (remember, this is SPOKEN) fit on 3 cassettes. Those were a lot easier for him to use. Mike Moroney ..decwrl!rhea!jon!moroney