Look for your favorite artists soon on magnetic tape
By PopSci Staff Posted 04.01.2009 at 8:32 am 6 Comments

Eight Reels at Once

This multiple tape recorder removes the last obstacle to commercial recordings on magnetic tape -- the mass production of duplicate tapes. It makes eight duplicates at once at three times normal speed. It can also record two sound tracks on the same tape at the same time. Thus the machine can turn out eight hour-long recordings in 10 minutes, or 48 an hour.

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Signals from a master tape are amplified and then fed into recording heads, shown above. A common capstan keeps the master and copy tapes at the same speed. In playback, one side of the double sound track plays as the tape reel unwinds, the other as it winds up. Minnesota Mining and Mfg. Co. made it.

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6 Comments

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roadchuck
04/01/09 at 9:11 am

I think this is going to be BIG! someday we may even be able to listen to magnetic tapes in our automobiles :)

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njdevil
04/01/09 at 10:03 am

technology these days....

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bdhoro87

from coral gables, fl

04/01/09 at 10:08 am

Funny

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bdhoro87

from coral gables, fl

04/01/09 at 10:08 am

Funny

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Battleshield
04/01/09 at 10:25 am

Why would anyone want music like this where you can put it on a 'tape'? What's wrong with the radio........You can get BOTH kinds of music from the radio - Country AND Western....

This is foolishness !!!

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rvantwisk

from Quito, Pichincha

04/01/09 at 11:12 am

The music industry will be doomed and backrupt within 5 years I will tell ya!!
Nobody will go to any of the classic concerts anymore.

Ries

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