[78-L] Dual purpose machine...

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Rice" <bobrice at snet.net>
> A machine that takes and makes music when you listen?In 1953 it was a 
> hoot!
> We had hours of fun, doing sounnd effects and skits! THEN the Big Box 
> Webcor
> TAPE recorders started appearing, you could set a mike in front of yur
> Philco radio and capture songs you liked, for Free!"QUIET!" I'm recording
> was the norm!Setting the mike by a tin waste basket and dropping a few 
> rocks
> in, for a Skit-type Plane Crash!Piece of cardboard stuck in a running
> electric fan for a prop plane sound! Lottsa fun! Oh the memories?
>
Back around 1959-60, there were Aiwa (IIRC) battery-powered tape recorders
that cost about $20 or so. NOT capstan-driven, they were useless as actual
tape recorders (you could only properly hear recordings made on the same
machine, with the batteries run down the same amount...?!) but us 
high-school
kids had a lot of fun with them...!

Steven C. Barr