RE: wire recorders

["Hakim Madjid" <HMadjid@earthlink.net>]

Sven Franklyn Weil wrote:

>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...

Not really. The steel band tape device was a came out of a BBC laboratory in
the early 30s. A reel of the stuff weighed quite a lot, and could injure
personnel if it unspooled.

The German AEG 'magnetophon' of the mid 1930s, actually used plastic
[cellulose acetate] based tape, which BASF had begun producing at the time.

73, de Hakim (N1ZFF)