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Skhilled

2024-03-24, 09:52:09
It may be released as early as today...if we all agree on it. ;)
 

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2024-03-24, 09:37:46
Thank you, sir!  :)
 

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2024-03-24, 09:28:38
I like it. Dark themes are not my first choice, but I like the crisp, clean lines.  :thumbup:
 

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2024-03-24, 08:56:28
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2024-03-24, 08:50:36
Any previews yet?
 

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2024-03-24, 08:46:18
We almost have another theme completed.  :laugh:
 

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Hi Steve.  :)
 

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Lou Ottens, Cassette Tape Inventor Died
« on: March 14, 2021, 05:34:18 AM »
Cassette Tape Inventor Died - Ep. 7.353

Lou Ottens, who invented the cassette tape and pioneered the CD, dies
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March 12, 2021 11:37 AM PT

Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor who pioneered the compact disc and invented the cassette tape — the medium of choice for millions of homemade mix tapes — has died at a care facility in the Netherlands.

Ottens died March 6 at 94, the Dutch electronic conglomerate Philips announced.

A structural engineer who trained at the prestigious Technical University in Delft, he joined Philips in 1952 and was head of the company’s product development department when he began work on an alternative for existing tape recorders with their cumbersome large spools of tape.

His goal was simple: making tapes and their players far more portable and easier to use.

“During the development of the cassette tape, in the early 1960s, he had a wooden block made that fit exactly in his coat pocket,” said Olga Coolen, director of the Philips Museum in the southern city of Eindhoven. “This was how big the first compact cassette was to be, making it a lot handier than the bulky tape recorders in use at the time.”
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Re: Lou Ottens, Cassette Tape Inventor Died
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2021, 08:33:05 AM »
R.I.P., your invention has bought me many happy days! :)