I'd like to hear the Japanese version of this.
Early 1980s Datsun/Nissan Voice Alert phonograph unit [video]
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#12Does anyone understand what it does to play different recordings on the same physical surface? Are they interlocking spirals and it has slightly different starting point? Curious what's allowing it to use the same space for different recordings without swapping out mini records between plays.
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#13I'd like to hear the Japanese version of this.
I’m willing to bet the Japanese version sounds much more urgent and serious lol
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#14Whoever recorded those messages seemed a bit aroused about the right door being open.
Yeah there's some intensity in those door announcements for sure.
Sounds like the kind of intonation you get from being in a recording studio having your diction of four words picked apart so much they stop being words and suddenly you can't even say them in a neutral tone. "clipped vowel on 'right'" "emphasize 'door'" "nice long vowel on 'open'" and then you end up with... whatever that was.
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#15When I was a small child, my dad drove a 1983 Datsun Maxima that had this. As cheesy at it seems today, it felt magical and impossibly high-tech at the time, especially to me.
I grew up with Nissan my whole life, even worked for them for a bit when I was in the Auto Industry: it ranged from S30s, Hardbodies, B11/12, several L and D chassis, and then my own foray with mainly S chassis.
And can confirm it's a thing. Hell I still make the bing-bong chime (sounded like it was saying NI SAN) before the engine turned over in any car (over 50 now) I've ever owned because of those memories.
While Nissan may not be in it's glory days anymore, maybe the EV era will allow things to get exciting again.
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#16Does anyone understand what it does to play different recordings on the same physical surface? Are they interlocking spirals and it has slightly different starting point? Curious what's allowing it to use the same space for different recordings without swapping out mini records between plays.
Linked by another poster below:
https://jalopnik.com/1982-datsun-voice-warning-box-used-tiny...
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#17This sort of mechanism was in toys at that point, for example this Doctor Who K9 robot toy:
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#18One of these features memorably in the Kinky Friedman book "Armadillos and Old Lace".
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#19We had a 1984 Nissan 300zx growing up, it said "door is ajar". Perfect Dad joke setup.
"door is ajar" - jar of what, jelly? (and other variations)
That joke was already old in the 90's.
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#20I can't believe this showed up on the front page today! I was just talking to a co-worker about this:
Back in 1989, my college buddy Matt had a used Sentra that had that same voice. We assumed his got "warped" or something because the inflection of the female voice kind of rises at the end of some of her statements, making her sound annoyed with the human(s).
Listening to the video, however, it sounds exactly like I remembered--so I guess that was standard.