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Re: OTP BEER!

To: Chris Nevard <spridgeteer@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: OTP BEER!
From: Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 19:20:55 +0000
Chris Nevard wrote:

> "If there was no electricity a television would have to use candlelight"

John Logie Baird's original almost did, using a neon bulb behind a spinning 
disc full of holes.  He also made a video recording on a shellac disc, only 
trouble was, he hadn't invented a way of playing it.  The disc is still in 
existence and was finally decoded and played just last year. 

PaulH.



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