[Milsurplus] Transcription disks

[mikea]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 10:07:44PM -0500, Fred Olsen wrote:
> > SBJohnston@aol.com wrote:
> > Stan -
> > The ones I have here are all 33-1/3 rpm, not the 16 rpm you mentioned.
> > Perhaps the "16" refers to the size not the speed.
> 
> It seems to me that there really was a 16&2/3 RPM (actual) turntable
> speed.  In addition to transcription disks it was used for talking books
> and the like.

I think it may still be, though the National Library Service for
the Blind and Physically Handicapped (part of the Library of
Congress, here in the US) has been trying _hard_ to convert to
tapes and to recall all the 16.667 players and disks.

-- 
Mike Andrews
mikea@mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin since 1964