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United Biscuits Network

57 点作者 cnorthwood大约 1 年前

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Animats大约 1 年前
There were various lo-fi business music systems. Muzak, like United Biscuits, distributed over telephone lines. There were self-contained systems. Seeburg, the jukebox maker, made one, the Seeburg 1000. It wasn&#x27;t random access like a jukebox. It just played a stack of records over and over with a relatively simple mechanism.<p>Seeburg&#x27;s had their own orchestra, in Chicago, and recorded their own records. They just had to buy a &quot;mechanical license&quot; from the songwriters, which in the US costs a fixed rate set by law. So they owned rights to the content. To protect it, they recorded it on a nonstandard sized disk (9 inches), a nonstandard hole size (2 inches) with a nonstandard speed (16 2&#x2F;3 RPM, rather lo-fi) and a nonstandard stylus size (5 mils). They didn&#x27;t copyright the content; that cost money back then.<p>Someone collects these obsolete machines, restored a Seeburg player, and modified a modern turntable to play them. They stream it out, legally.[1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radiocoastcom.godaddysites.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radiocoastcom.godaddysites.com&#x2F;</a>
weinzierl大约 1 年前
In the 90s I worked at a pharmaceutical factory. They had little autonomous electric line follower vehicles that transported samples through the halls.<p>Because these moved very silently, every one of them had small transistor radio attached (in a makeshift way) that blared music through the buildings.
eschneider大约 1 年前
I&#x27;m always shocked more companies don&#x27;t do things like this, especially now that it&#x27;s so much cheaper. Yes, yes, everyone has their own playlists, but an employee-run, company-wide streaming station is a cheap moral builder.
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dduugg大约 1 年前
TIL. I thought this would be related to King Biscuit Time, &quot;the longest-running daily American radio broadcast in history&quot;, but apparently it&#x27;s just a coincidence:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;King_Biscuit_Time" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;King_Biscuit_Time</a>
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jdietrich大约 1 年前
See also:<p>LEO, the first business computer system in the world, built in 1951 by J. Lyons &amp; Co to calculate the cost of cake ingredients.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;LEO_(computer)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;LEO_(computer)</a>
rsynnott大约 1 年前
See also: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hospital_radio" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hospital_radio</a><p>(I’d assumed this was a global thing, but it seems to mostly just be the UK and Ireland.)