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September 29, 2012 07:02 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/7V5nbRgiuQM/smith-coronas-voice-letters.html
Smith-Corona's voice letters by post: dead media
Here's a weird bit of dead media: a Smith-Corona audio-letter that used a "Letterpack cartridge" (which appears to be a 3.5" floppy disc) to record and play back personal voice-letters sent by post. The apparatus is a fascinating dead branch in design history, something that looks like it might be descended from a desktop intercom [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/7V5nbRgiuQM/smith-coronas-voice-letters.html
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