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  30th Jan 2015, 6:02 PM#1  REPORT  
Juke Jules SUBS

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While we are discussing old tape formats, I wonder if any cassettes were commercially released in the Grundig format.
The Grundig cassettes looked almost identical to the Phillips cassettes but ran at 2" per second and the two types were not compatible.

To see a Grundig tape see the promotion sheet for one of the players at Radiomuseum.org


  30th Jan 2015, 10:31 PM#2  REPORT  
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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:


  31st Jan 2015, 10:52 AM#3  REPORT  
Neil Forbes

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Juke Jules wrote:
While we are discussing old tape formats, I wonder if any cassettes were commercially released in the Grundig format.
The Grundig cassettes looked almost identical to the Phillips cassettes but ran at 2" per second and the two types were not compatible.

To see a Grundig tape see the promotion sheet for one of the players at Radiomuseum.org
I can easily see why the tapes were incompatible, the playing speed aside, the physical size of the cartridge(slightly wider and longer than the Philips-type we're familiar with) is clearly the other factor in the incompatibility between the two formats.


  26th Feb 2015, 11:44 PM#4  REPORT  
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The full specifications of the Grundig cassettes can be found in the link which Magic Marmalade has given in connection with blank cassettes: http://vintagecassettes.com


  27th Feb 2015, 6:56 AM#5  REPORT  
Neil Forbes

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I'm actually amazed the Philips cassette format worked as well as it did, considering the company that invented it! I'm no fan of Philips, The first TV in our home when I was a kid, was a Philips and it was forever playing up, all manner of things going wrong with it. Just was well the service technician lived in the same suburb, only a street away! His van was almost permanently parked at our front door! No surprise then, that I have absolutely NO confidence in that brand and would use any other brand BUT Philips!


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