Category: history
Early computer music
So long, Marianne
To paraphrase an old country tune…
The Beocord 8000 Design Story
#58 in a series of articles about the technology behind Bang & Olufsen products
Cleaning up around my desk again… This time I found a booklet called the “Beocord 8000 Design Story” published by Bang & Olufsen in December of 1979. This one has some interesting information about cassette tape recorders/players – including a paper describing a cool way to measure head wear. Click here to download the file.
Happy Canada Day
B&O Tech: 100 Years of Danish Loudspeakers
#56 in a series of articles about the technology behind Bang & Olufsen loudspeakers
This book was released some months ago as part of the 100 year anniversary of loudspeaker development in Denmark. There are a number of good articles in there, including a historical article on the importance of loudspeaker directivity at Bang & Olufsen.
Note that, unfortunately, the website that was associated with this book no longer exists… :-(
Those that do not remember the past…
Hmmm… It seems that the people who came up with this idea have never read the classic first example in the definitions of a “perverse incentive“.
Muscle Shoals
There’s one verse of “Sweet Home Alabama” that says
“Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers
And they’ve been known to pick a song or two”.
If you watch this movie to the end, you’ll find out what that means.
Here we go again…
