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Albums are almost as old as recorded music. A hundred years ago when the most music a 78 RPM record could hold was four minutes, long pieces like operas or symphonies were broken up over multiple discs. Those discs were then sold in book-like packages that reminded many of photo albums. That’s how the record album got its name. The multiple disc problem was solved by Columbia in 1948 when in June of that year, they unveiled the 33 1/3 long-playing album. When RCA countered with the 7-inch 45 RPM single a year later, the LP became the domain of...

Members of the Southampton Railroad Station Society plan to mark the 1921 crash of two trains near Bryn Athyn, which killed 27. For many area residents the train track on Creek Road in Upper Moreland is just that - a train track. But to some railroad historians like Charles Liberto, Frank Baldwin and Richard Mansley and a few area families, the single lane track means history. A painful history. Saturday will mark the 88th anniversary of a deadly Upper Moreland train wreck that claimed 27 lives and injured 70 people. The crash and the high number of casualties, many of...

Remember the Commodore 64? The Tandy TRS-80? Computer museum saves relics from the past By Andrea Ball AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Friday, January 9, 2004 Drop the mouse, move away from the iMac and step back in time for a moment. Remember the Commodore 64? The Tandy TRS-80? Clunky word processors, Atari Super Pong and black-screened monitors with blinking green cursors? Ahhhh, memories. Those days might be gone, but an unlikely agency is preserving Austin's computer relics: Goodwill Industries of Central Texas. The agency has more than 1,000 donated computers, calculators and gaming systems housed at Computer Works, Goodwill's used computer store...