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  • Thank you, that’s the piece of info I never had. If it’s not a Reddit-level fact. The 2 channels were new and people wete trying things out and mind-altering substances were freely available as well, so judgment might have been hogtied at times.

    At the time, there was sentiment that it was a way to sell two amplifiers and speakers instead of one, a suspicion furthered by the later arrival of quad, which for many was a bridge too far. Audio places tried that briefly and then went back to selling stereo. And may be why a certain generation looks askance at 5.1 etc.

    There were other changes as well, tubes/valves to solid state plus hybrids…when I read about Cloud products in IT, it rhymes, marketing hoodoo inveigling into genuine tech appraisals.






  • The financial titans of the day invested in and built them.

    Govt helped by donating land for right of way.

    Sometimes they didn’t get built and lost money. Cornelius Vanderbilt’s New York Central tried to compete with the Pennsylvania at one time, but the route became the PA Turnpike after he abandoned the effort.

    They all ran their own passenger service until Amtrak was formed to bail them out.

    The NYCentral and Pennsylvania merged and then went bankrupt, there’s a book about the fall of the Penn Central.

    There have been many failed railroad companies in the US.










  • All the music files had strings of characters added to their file name. All of them. In every folder and subfolder. The names were long, VLC displayed them in marquee.

    In that player those changed names didn’t show, but un any other player and file manager they did. Which I found out when sicmu started having playback issues and I opened VLC.

    That was perhaps the 2nd or 3rd version of it posted on FDroid. I used to search for a folder player a lot and so tried the first version posted there, it was great until that update.

    Great player, just won’t use it again.