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- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!charnel!rat!ucselx!crash!cmkrnl!jeh
- From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Help!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.101723.890@cmkrnl.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 18:17:23 GMT
- References: <184333@pyramid.pyramid.com>
- Organization: Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego, CA
- Lines: 23
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- In article <184333@pyramid.pyramid.com>, lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell) writes:
- > In article <7490250@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> myers@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Myers) writes:
- > sum1 else >> Could somebody tell me the names of the inventors of:
- >>>
- >>> The 8-track
- >>
- >>Don't know.
- >
- > Madman Muntz? Wasn't it Lear, of LearJet fame?
-
- Lear-Siegler is associated with the 8-track. I don't know if this has any
- connection with LearJets.
-
- I believe that Earl "Madman" Muntz was the, um, "inventor" of the four-track
- car player. I put "inventor" in quotes because the cartridges and players used
- essentially the same mechanisms as the ones the radio broadcast industry had
- been using for years. These units were never very popular outside of
- California, maybe just Southern California, but here they had a thriving
- business for a while.
-
- --- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
- Internet: jeh@cmkrnl.com, hanrahan@eisner.decus.org, or jeh@crash.cts.com
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