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Posted by salaamallah@hotmail.com on Sat Jun 10 01:28:00 2006 battery powered open reel recorders !!no camcorders no vhs units back then but reel to reel and 45 records 33/1/3 records most mono then stereo hi - fi era... i know i am getting old when i remember seeing them being sold the small portable hand held tiny reel to reel audio recorder ! dirt cheap ( this was before the compact analog audio cassette ) i remember seeing them sold in drug stores general markets radio shack lafayette radio electronics olson electronics stores they did not sound as good as the 7'' and 10'' 1/4 hi fi models some of them were called ''sound cameras'' and you had to plug in a moving coil MIC ( some of them had on off switches ) 3' 2' reels usually powered by either aa c or d bateries music some recording kinda sounded ok .....then in the 70s the audio cassette was a much better improvement until the walkman came in ..... then yopu have a radio and an audio cassette but thats later i strill remember seeing those small reels going round and round !! maybe you had one of those small units way back in the 1960s eh ? i target about 1965 when you could get one of these units !! peak |