[78-L] Kinescopes (WAS Average Age)

[David Lennick]

Possible..I only saw it once and I don't recall it looking so much like a 
semi-pro reel-to-reel recorder, which this one does.

dl

On 11/17/2010 12:26 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> From: Alan Bunting<alanbuntinguk at yahoo.com>
>> Maybe it was an Akai:
>> http://www.dcvideo.com/obsolete-video-formats/quarter-inch-akai.html
>> Alan Bunting
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> That sounds like it.  It probably was.  It's been many years since I
> looked at it.  Ours is a portable unit that uses 5-inch reels.  The one
> shown is a tabletop with 7-inch reels.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> There was also a machine that used open reel quarter inch tape
>> in the late 70s. I only saw one in home use..anyone know what
>> it was? Seems to me it would record for less than a half hour. dl
> From: Michael Biel<mbiel at mbiel.com>
> It might have been Sanyo.  Whatever the brand, I have one in the
> warehouse.  The news program was using one when I arrived here in 1978
> and I got it with the camera and case when they upgraded to something
> real.
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> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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