A Boston First?

[Scott Fybush]

> At 11:03 PM 8/26/2004, rogerkirk wrote:

> Could this mean some sort of audio-on-hard-drive system?  I don't recall
> seeing any that early, but it could have been a prototype...didn't WBZ use
> Media Touch by the late 80s?

As an automation system, yes, but without any digital audio storage. Until
we moved across the building in the fall of 1996, the Media Touch screens
simply fired off audio from a bank of Instacart racks in master control.
The digital audio didn't come in - and the carts go out - until '96.

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