Re: wire recorders

[Sven Franklyn Weil <sven@gordsven.com>]

On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Roger Kirk wrote:

> 
> How did they work?  Poorly.  Splicing wire was a Boy
> Scout's dream - a knot.  Since the wire could rotate, alignment

I thought that's how you spliced recording wire.  But I wasn't sure.  
Wouldn't a knot on a steel wire murder the recording/playback head? Not to 
mention getting snagged in the rest of the mechanism?

The Germans, during the 2nd World Wide Slaughter came up with a huge
rack-mounted reel-to-reel machine that recorded on a steel band.  They
were used in radio stations...


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