On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Glen Sanderson <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Once again back to this august group of individuals with a penchant for
> Records (vinyl that is).  On the old jukeboxes you could select several
> songs and you may have to wait for your selected song to be played. Do you
> know if that was called the queue or some other word. And you can tell me
> that’s what google is for.  Thanks in advance.
>


Yes, it was a queue... bu tit was ordered sequentially in the alpha-numeric
order assigned to the songs available.  By that. I mean it wasn't "first
in-first out" like a standard queue.

If Person 1 selected:

A-5, C-6, and E-4

and Person 2 selected

A-9, B-3 and C-4

And the "juke" was playing A-5, it would ten advance to all three of the
songs selected by Person 2 before playing C-6 and E-4, because those other
disks came up in order before them.

The arm that selected the disks traveled a lineal path, it knew something
had been selected, but it did not know who selected them when.

That's why sometimes you'd go to a soda shop or bowling alley or pool hall
and put your money in and a half hour (7 or 8 songs) later you STILL hadn't
heard your selections.


-- 
Larry
[log in to unmask]



*----Lawrence J. MedinaDanville, CARIM Professional since 1972*

List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html
Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance
To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message.
mailto:[log in to unmask]