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

[Malcolm Rockwell]

One can also get these in Darkest America if one knows which catalogue 
to look in.
Mal

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Mike Harkin wrote:
> 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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