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From 1931 RCA produced a range of small mantel radios called the Superette, which at introduction sold for $57.50 not including the vacuum tubes. [5] [6] "Super" was derived from superheterodyne. Probably the most well known is the Model R-7, which was produced in several versions. RCA also produced a console version, the model R-9.
Although there was no universally accepted speed, and various companies offered discs that played at several different speeds, the major recording companies eventually settled on a de facto industry standard of nominally 78 revolutions per minute. The specified speed was 78.26 rpm in America and 77.92 rpm throughout the rest of the world.
RCA Victor began selling the first all-electric Victrola in 1930 and in 1931 the company attempted to revitalize record sales with the introduction of 33 1 ⁄ 3 revolutions-per-minute (rpm) long play records, which were a commercial failure during the Great Depression, partly because the Victrolas with two speed turntables required to play ...
RCA Spectra 70 Model 46. The RCA Model 70/46 (1967) [12] is a modified version of the 70/45 with an added capability for virtual memory. Advertisements for this computer as a timesharing machine referred to it as the Octoputer. [13] Programs can run in either 70/45 mode—without virtual memory—or in 70/46 mode with virtual memory enabled.
Speed units of inches per second or in/s are also abbreviated IPS. 3 + 3 ⁄ 4 in/s and 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 in/s are the speeds that were used for (the vast majority of) consumer market releases of commercial recordings on reel-to-reel tape. 3 + 3 ⁄ 4 in/s is also the speed used in 8-track cartridges. 1 + 7 ⁄ 8 in/s is also the speed used in ...
Dimensia (/ d ɪ ˈ m ɛ n s i ə / dih-MEN-see-uh) was RCA's brand name for their high-end models of television systems and their components (tuner, VCR, CD player, etc.) produced from 1984 to 1989, with variations continuing into the early 1990s, superseded by the ProScan model line. After RCA was acquired by General Electric in 1986, GE sold ...
A soundbar, sound bar or media bar is a type of loudspeaker that projects audio from a wide enclosure. It is much wider than it is tall, partly for acoustic reasons, and partly so it can be mounted above or below a display device (e.g. above a computer monitor or under a home theater or television screen).
1986 (rca) [2] The Capacitance Electronic Disc ( CED ) is an analog video disc playback system developed by Radio Corporation of America (RCA), in which video and audio could be played back on a TV set using a special stylus and high-density groove system similar to phonograph records.