This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
Vinyl record hack
Article: 8419 of alt.hackers From: dthomas@mack.rt66.com (David B. Thomas) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Vinyl record hack Date: 9 Aug 1995 02:29:07 -0600 Organization: Engineering International Inc., Public Internet Access Lines: 21 Approved: dthomas@rt66.com Message-ID: 409rkj$qjh@mack.rt66.com NNTP-Posting-Host: mack.rt66.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Status: RO
In the vein of "No hack too small", I offer this gem of brute force. I was trying to get my Partridge Family Christmas album to play. No, it was for a Good Reason! Really! Check out my 70s page for my alibi (http://www.rt66.com/dthomas/70s/70s.html). Anyway.. the silly thing was stamped *off center*! The pitch would vary wildly, to the point where it was noticeably less listenable than your usual Partridge Family Christmas album. After considering drilling a hole through the picture of Shirley Jones, I decided to drill out the center hole of the record. In best hacker form, I drilled a little at a time, and worked out a system for accurately positioning the record so it would play correctly. You push the record against the spindle as far as it will go, from the edge of the record closest to the little "bell" emblem on the gray label. That works for side one, anyway, and that was enough Partridge Family Christmas to last *me* a few seasons! David -- Their address sums up their attitude: One Microsoft Way http://www.rt66.com/dthomas/