Re: wire recorders

[Cooper Fox <fox893@yahoo.com>]

I always felt that big radio was more communnist than
fascist...


--- Brian Vita <brian_vita@cssinc.com> wrote:
> My recollection is that tape recorder technology was
> advanced by the
> Furheur's desire to voice track his speeches across
> his land, kind of like
> Clear Channel.
> 
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sven Franklyn Weil" <sven@gordsven.com>
> To: "Roger Kirk" <rogerkirk@ttlc.net>
> Cc: <bri@bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 11:48 PM
> Subject: Re: wire recorders
> 
> 
> > 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...
> >
> >
> > --
> > Sven Franklyn Weil            "The needs of the
> many outweigh
> > <sven@gordsven.com>                      the needs
> of the few
> > <http://www.gordsven.com/sven>                  
> or the one."
> >                                                   
>   -- Surak
> >
> >
> 


=====
Cooper
    Alice 93.7 FM  WXAL, Middlebury, VT

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