6 · by joesiegler.blog · view on bsky.app ↗

Back in 1995 I bought Pink Floyd's Pulse on CD - the deluxe one with the blinking light. It still blinks to this day - in fact it's sitting out in my office today still blinking. Ran across this old sticker that came with it back in the day. Don't see stickers like this too often. :)

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Joe Siegler · 6 · 2d ago

Followup. Here's the inside. You take out the hard cover case with the booklet and the CDs in there. Behind that is a paper sleeve that holds the batteries and the light in place. You take THAT out of the cardboard sleeve to change the batteries. I think in 31 years I've had to change batteries 3x.

Parallax Abstraction · 1 · 2d ago

I bought the Blu-ray a couple years back. Showed up with dead battery for the light. :( Haven't bothered replacing it yet cause I think it's a watch battery buried in the box frame somewhere but I should at some point.

Joe Siegler · 1 · 2d ago

I wonder if it's the same thing as the 1995 CD. Here's a 5 sec video of it on my desk right now (no audio). I actually use Pulse as a base for my Amazon Echo in my office, since this new kind of Echo has the light at the bottom now, and I can’t see it from where I sit in my office. :)

Parallax Abstraction · 1 · 2d ago

Hmm, mayhaps! I'll have to give it a look and see.