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Topic: Grundig cassettes

  30th Jan 2015, 10:31 PM
Trainman

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That's a new one on me. It looks like it'd use the same tape, just run at a different speed. Here in the US there were several different experimental formats to make a cartridge tape. The other one I remember was a monster that actually held a full 1200' of 1.5mil tape (a "standard" 7" reel) but fortunately it never caught on. Then there were the micro cassettes, but they were primarily only used in answering machines and hand help portable dictating machines.

Then the rim drive reel recorders that ran at whatever speed they felt like, and you could only play the tape back on the machine you made it on. (the Craig unit that "self destructed" in the opening sequence of the old "Mission Impossible" TV show was a prime example)

Those were the "Good Old Days" :headphones:


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