[78-L] Early portable electric recording? [FWD]

[Mike Harkin]

I've heard of wind-up radios, for places like Darkest Africa where there's no electricity.  IIRC the wind-up motor drives a small geneerator; don't remember how long a winding was good for.

MIke in Plovdiv

--- On Sat, 12/19/09, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. <bratcher at pdq.net> wrote:

> From: Robert M. Bratcher Jr. <bratcher at pdq.net>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Early portable electric recording?
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Saturday, December 19, 2009, 5:27 AM
> At 11:28 PM 12/18/2009, you wrote:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Bud Black" <banjobud at cfl.rr.com>
> > > Anybody ever hear of a wind-up tape
> recorder?  In 1959 I was interviewed
> > > by
> > > a gentleman of the press who used a small tape
> recorder in which the
> > > sound/record system was battery operated, but the
> drive capstan and the 7"
> > > reels were spring driven.  I don't recall
> the manufacturer.
> > >
> >Back around 1970, there were Aiwa battery-powered
> "mini-tape-recorders!"
> >They were NOT "capstan-driven,? so that what you heard
> depended on the
> >battery voltage...!
> >
> >Steven C. Barr
> 
> Sounds like rim drive which would vary the speed. Of course
> a capstan 
> drive recorder could slow down as the batteries die. a GE
> cassette 
> recorder I used to record class lectures during the 1980's
> would slow 
> down as the batteries died plus the sound would distort
> right before 
> they totally gave out. 
> 
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