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31st Jan 2015, 10:39 AM
	Neil Forbes Rock, Country or R. & B. - Classic Hits for me! Member since Dec 2014 252 Points	Trainman wrote: No, the tape would have gotten tangled in the capstan by about the third trip through. As far as stopping, the machine wouldn't know the difference. The tape was spliced into a continuous loop anyway, There was a foil sensor strip or an audio cue tone that did that. Well' I'm corrected on the width of the tape, but being quarter-inch wide would mean the actual track would be very narrow indeed(8 tracks required to give 4 stereo pairs for 4 "programmes"). As for the ending, it wouldn't until you withdrew the cartridge from the player! With each successive pass, a foil strip would trigger solenoid switching through each successive "programme". When reaching the end of Prog.4, the solenoid would kick back to Prog.1 and "here we go again, folks!" unless you press that eject button!

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