Wire Recorders

[cabinetman]

I still have stashed in storage a wire recorder from the late 40's or early 50's. The last time I used it it still worked. I was amazed at that technology for the times. Anyone have one or seen one?

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[Knottscott]

Wow...I'd never ever even heard of one!

[Pappy]

And people are amazed that I still have an open deck tape recorder. For you young-uns, that was also caled a "reel to reel". Mine is a Teac X-10R, reverse playback and record, the cadillac of tape decks at the time.

[cabinetman]

And people are amazed that I still have an open deck tape recorder. For you young-uns, that was also caled a "reel to reel". Mine is a Teac X-10R, reverse playback and record, the cadillac of tape decks at the time.

I'm among the few. I still have (and it works) a Teac A-6010.
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[BobSch]

We've got several... at the broadcast museum where I volunteer.

[cabinetman]

We've got several... at the broadcast museum where I volunteer.

Is there a link for that place?

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[eccentrictinkerer]

Is there a link for that place?

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I'll bet it's this one!

http://www.pavekmuseum.org/

The Pavek Museum is great fun for adults 'of a certain age' and kids, too. My grandkids love it.

[BobSch]

I'll bet it's this one!

http://www.pavekmuseum.org/

The Pavek Museum is great fun for adults 'of a certain age' and kids, too. My grandkids love it.

You've got it. I've been volunteering there since I retired.

Speaking of retired, it's kind of spooky walking through the museum and seeing equipment I used to use on a daily basis.

[cabinetman]

You've got it. I've been volunteering there since I retired.

Speaking of retired, it's kind of spooky walking through the museum and seeing equipment I used to use on a daily basis.

I felt the same way seeing my first wife 20 years after the divorce.

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[phrog]

Wow, C'man, I thought I was old and I only remember wire recorders from science history class. I started with a reel-to-reel. Wire recorders, weren't they invented by Isaac Newton?

[sweensdv]

I felt the same way seeing my first wife 20 years after the divorce.

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Just imagine what she was thinking.

[Mildoc]

I have a 40s Sears wire recorder I bought in the 80s. Still works,, and love to "amaze" folks with it. Sound is pretty poor, of course, but fun to play with.

[JimD]

If you have good reel to reel tapes you like to listen to, you might digitize them. It isn't hard but it takes some time. I digitized a bunch of LPs my late wife and I liked in our college days. I had to raise the output of the turntable, I think you might be able to take a tape deck signal directy to your computer. The process I followed was to use free software to digitize it and then a shareware program to remove clicks and pops. I now have good mp3 files of all these old LPs.

Jim

[BobSch]

If you have good reel to reel tapes you like to listen to, you might digitize them. It isn't hard but it takes some time. I digitized a bunch of LPs my late wife and I liked in our college days. I had to raise the output of the turntable, I think you might be able to take a tape deck signal directy to your computer. The process I followed was to use free software to digitize it and then a shareware program to remove clicks and pops. I now have good mp3 files of all these old LPs.

Jim

Sounds like one of my upcoming projects at the museum. We have one of Bing Crosby's original Ampex 200 tape decks with an original tape of one of his radio shows. He was one of the first entertainers to pre-record his radio programs for later broadcast. Anyway, I'm going to digitize the tapes for archiving. It's amazing how good they sound considering they're sixty-some years old.

[chopnhack]

C-man, what museum had her on display :P