[78-L] Mail-a-voice

[David Lennick]

Okay, people..does anyone know anything about the Brush "Mail-A-Voice" Magnetic 
Recorder? This is the one reference I've been able to find..
http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=BDC

Today I picked up a nearly complete package of Mail-A-Voice Recording Blanks. 
16 of them (there were originally 20 in the envelope)..about ten-inch, thin 
paper, shiny black on one side and brownish on the back..very much like paper 
tape. The link refers to this device being popular with servicemen during WWII 
(so popular I've never heard of it or seen anything related to it, and 
presumably any "letters" made on it would require another machine at the 
recipient's end to play them back) but the blanks mention Brush as manufacturer 
of the Soundmirror, which was post-war.

dl