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One of the great things about analog technology is it fucks up correctly
- jodrellblank 16y agoIt's a good tale, and I think it's the same power failure which starts James Burk's Connections book, but I wonder if he (blog author) has cause and effect backwards. There's nothing so intuitive about an overloaded generator slowing down and causing record players to slow that we'd expect to see it in a childrens story. Perhaps instead we think lights dimming and record players slowing is the right thing to happen in a power grid problem because that's what used to happen. Also, distorting music is a terrible thing for a record player to do. It's hard to see that as "the correct way" for a record player to fail.