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   user_358258

   @RandyWebster

   12:28 PM EDT ⋅ Apr 18, 2014

   Seawriter:

   Pretty much all of them at the time. We are talking 1975-79. The ‘zine was Ann Arbor Wargamer, which had a circulation of about 350 and a print run of 500. Did it while I was in college. So . . . board wargames (including Avalon Hill and S&T), role playing, miniatures, you name it.

   I did naval stuff mostly. We had another guy that did PanzerBlitz/Panzer Leader variants, someone who did fantasy role playing, another guy that was into Napoleonic and Civil War miniatures, and a big Drang Nach Osten group as I recall.

    That was about the time we started playing War in the Pacific.  I never played any of the big European land campaign games.  Though we did spend several years playing The Longest Day.

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   Spin

   @Spin

   12:52 PM EDT ⋅ Apr 18, 2014

   anonymous:

   Spin:

   CDs and digital music players don’t amaze me. I get exactly how those work. I have no idea how they made records work. None whatsoever.

   In the early days of CDs, some people at record companies didn’t either. The cutting lathes used to create masters for vinyl records rolled off at high frequencies, so the master tapes used to drive them were equalized to boost high frequencies to compensate. After CDs appeared and vinyl sales collapsed, some music publishers rushed out CDs created from analogue master tapes without re-equalising them for flat frequency response. The exaggerated high-end would make your teeth curl. Some enthusiasts who had never heard live music marveled at the “new digital sound”, while everybody else assumed this, too, would pass. Within a couple of years it did, as proper re-mastering of analogue tapes (mostly from original masters, not cutting lathe mixes) for digital became the norm.

    Show off.