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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Happy New Year From History's Dumpster!



And now as we prepare to ring in 2014, I would like us to remember one man of whom it just hasn't been New Year's Eve without. Mr. Dick Clark.



Thank you all so much for a GREAT year!

Cheers!,

Larry

GREAT News For Fans of Classic Home Video Games Of The '80s!


Miss your Atari 2600 or 7800? Your Colecovision, Odyessy or Astrocade?

Guess what? Internet Archive now has hundreds of playable ROMs on their web site. Note: There currently is no sound for them. But IA is going to add it soon.

You can find them here.

Monday, December 30, 2013

"Near You" Marlene Dietrich (1957)


1930's German film star goes rock n' roll......

The Phonograph Repeater

Watch a video of this thing here.

From the early 1900s, these were the very first automatic repeat gadgets for records. The needle would reach the end of a record (give or take a few seconds), then the needle would catch on the repeater and rotate it to the beginning of the record (again, give or take a few seconds)


The Geer Repeater

 More here.