[78-L] recording times

[joe@salerno.com]

I believe I also had one of those 3" Aiwa machines, my first.

Next came a Norelco that was capstan driven, would accomodate a reel up 
to 10.75 inches, ran at only 3.75 ips. I recorded many a tape on that 
machine and still have some of them.

joe salerno


Michael Biel wrote:
> Judging from your description of the speed problem, this machine was 
> probably a rim-drive machine, not a capstan machine.  They worked like a 
> wire recorder with the take up reel providing the forward motion.  The 
> revolution speed of the take-up reel was constant, so as more tape wound 
> onto the reel the tape speed would increase by a great degree, possibly 
> a factor of 4 times or more.  There are color pictures of three Aiwa's 
> of this type on pages 342-43 of Phil Van Praag's "Evolution of the Audio 
> Recorder."  I have one of those type of machines (cheaper brand, 
> however) in the next room with a tape on it I've been meaning to dub off 
> for years.  I got it in 1962.   It was around $20. 
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 
> 
> Steven C. Barr wrote:
>> I also recall (dimly) an Aiwa non-capstan-driven mini-r2r machine that used
>> 3" reels of tape and was battery-powered...c.1959, IIRC! We young folks
>> (well, I WAS...once upon a time!) used to sneak them under each other's
>> front (car) seats in hopes of recording something titillating. Since the 
>> tapes
>> couldn't be played on any other machine...and to some extent even the
>> individual machines couldn't play tapes made by others exactly "on speed"...
>> (and the speed was also a function of battery condition...?!) these never
>> became anything more than a fun novelty, AFAIK...?!
>>
>> ...stevenc 
>>
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