Sorry Johnny that’s wrong.

Not sure why oo-toob threw this one up though I do remember the Doomsday book fondly as i helped collating some submissions from a school way back when.

Obsolete technologies can be fun and this clip contains two.The then quite new CD-Video which combined a few tracks of digital CD-compatible audio with a single track of analogue laserdisc compatible video.

Johnny “think of a number” ball points to the laserdisc and says “digital” which is wrong as laserdisc was analogue and this pits and lands on the disc were ma modulated analogue signal. It’s true that digital audio could be stored there too but the BBC Doomsday project which used a laserdisc to store images and video accessed through a computer was storing analogue information.

Anyway I always thought laserdisc would’ve been a better vinyl record replacement because it could store analogue audio alongside digital in a 12″ for factor thus keeping the lovely album artwork.

Sony’s prototype compact disc was also 12″. Sadly Philips won out and the hard-to-love CD was born.

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Recommended Podcast: Soundman Confidential

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Over Prescribed Medication Nation

I used to be called to fill in repeat prescriptions for my former elderly neighbours. One of them had a repeat prescription lost of 22 seperate items.

Their GP regularly tried to reduce the amount they received and /or refused to re-supply certain items but they would angrily bully the GP into re-prescribing them.

The prescription contained a few items that I thought GP’s no longer prescribed such as Hayfeaver tablets.

Often cheaper alternatives were returned but again there was this sense of entitlement and, sadly a desperate belief that doctors can hold back the aches & pains of ageing.

We are a nation hooked on prescription medicines. OK this could also be a pure money saving exercise.

My previous GP would not prescribe pain killers believing that people just get hooked on them.

I attended a pain relief class organised by the NHS where they basically explained that the brain is dumb & often reports pain, once triggered, despite the cause abating and that other non drug based options could help manage it more.

I can’t pretend that this message was well received.

We are a medication nation.

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Not Half- The regret of the lost cassette tape from way back when

One of my minor regrets, as my past becomes my archive is that I remember recording The Saturday Rock show with Fluff Freeman on BBC Radio 1 circa January 1977 because they were going to play tracks from the then new David Bowie LP; Low.

Now I had a paper round to do such was my youthage at the time so I set off a C120 Agfa color cassette to return to have my musical muscles stunned by the five end to end tracks that Fluff played: Speed of Life, Breaking Glas, Sound & Vision, Warszawa & Subterraneans.

Fluff sounded a tad stunned at the end of that little lot and I now regret losing that cassette. I think my cassette was a decidedly 70s purple hue.

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