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ADC
Accutrac 4000
(1976 - 1978)
Launched
when automatisms were becoming an important marketing goal, the
Accutrac 4000 was a first. It was advertised at length everywhere,
even in Japan, and sold... ok. It was huge, bulky, but still sported
a wooden enclosure - technoid black looks were for slightly later
years.
However,
it wasn't a technological first : Toshiba in the very early 1970s
had a model capable of "seeing" the different tracks on
the LPs. And it also had a cool bowl / ball / bulb receiving the
remote control's IR codes. Yep. Said bowl / ball / bulb is by the
way the one thing everybody remembers about the first (fairly) successful
techn turntable...
A
later
model called ACCUTRAC +6 featured the
same remote/receptor set but a more somber base ; one of its 3 available
versions had remote volume control and 6 disc changer features.
It didn't make coffee, though. Nor tea.
One
of the taglines in 1976 was "Its
mother was a turntable, its father was a computer".
I
challenge anyone to add anything after that.
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