This is old technology from my industry.





We called this contraption a "cart" which was short for tape cartridge.

The continuous loop of magnetic recording tape was used to record sound clips to be played during a news update on radio.

When the record feature was activated, a cue tone was generated at the point when the tape began moving to record the clip you wanted.

The tone also acted as a stop signal so the recording wouldn't play through a second time while you were on the air.

As a presenter is was key to leave just a short gap of no sound at the beginning so you could activate the tape while saying the last word of the
introduction, so the listener didn't hear the "clunking" sound made when the tape started.

Stations I worked for we're still using this technology in the early 1990's before migrating to digital recording and playback.

Note the hand written identification label. I was on shift January 28, 1986 and had prepared this blank cartridge in advance, to capture the launch of the shuttle Challenger - "Teacher In Space" program. An event we thought would mark the beginning of an era of routine space travel. The recording was supposed to be used in the top hour newscast. That recording was never played for that purpose since the coverage of the launch failure continued live on radio and television for many hours.

I have transferred the audio to digital to preserve it, but keep the tape version to remind me how such a simple device was used to capture a small piece of our history.

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Thanks for sharing that piece of history, Admiral.

Thank you from me too, for sharing this, Admiral. I recall commercial radio stations used the "carts" for adverts.

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Originally Posted by Richard Brown

Thank you from me too, for sharing this, Admiral. I recall commercial radio stations used the "carts" for adverts.

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That's correct. Music stations also transferred vinyl recordings to "carts" for easier cataloguing and less medium deterioration.

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Originally Posted by tlbaker

I wish I still had my old Palm Pilot. Does it count if you google lol?

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Bob Maxey use to build them. Yup, your favorite iPad forum Bob actually worked in high tech doing actual work. Glad you liked the PalmPilot . . . I tried to do the bestus dang darn jobby possible.

I actually owned the very first Palm Pilot with 8 Mb of RAM. Several of us made our own memory boards from RAM chips left lying around the production floor.

I beta tested the Palm VII, too. Not even the on-site Palm rep had seen one. He thought I was connected to Palm so we got along.


Anyway, three cheers for Palm. I miss you.

This is my 1984 Commodore 64 home computer, it runs C= Basic 2.0 and it was great for its day

It's currently being used as a synthesizer for my music called chip tunes, my friend has a granny who might have more of these he might ask her to get some for me, and I'm Also asking his granny for a 1702 monitor , and here is a pic of the motherboard of my C128 which I tossed because it had to many problems , I kept the case for a Keyrah board though, and here's a pic of the board on my C64

Originally Posted by LannyC

I wanna tell you, as power trips go, little compares to the rush of commanding several thousand pipes!

milliHelen: amount of beauty required to launch one ship.

Oh really . . . try getting run out of Macon Georgia by a sherrif named Bubba and the local preacher who does not like banjo players foolin 'round with his daughter.

Originally Posted by skimonkey

I have mine too, we should post together!!

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Yes, I need to gather up my stuff and take a photo of it all.

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Originally Posted by Bob Maxey

Oh really . . . try getting run out of Macon Georgia by a sherrif named Bubba and the local preacher who does not like banjo players foolin 'round with his daughter.

Can you say shotgun???

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One piece of old technology. Not sure which model, I will remember after I post of course. Verizon Blackberry. Begins with a T. Torch, Touch, Touché lol. I think I got it in 2009. More old tech to follow.



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