Re: [ARSCLIST] Is this audio? or word processing? or ? ? ?

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From: "Richard L. Hess" <arclists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 19:20:50 -0400
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I'd love to restore your tapes/belts/discs/whatever...but wait.

First I MUST RESTORE THE MACHINE! My latest machine restoration project is a group of Studer A80RCs...now that is a rewarding project. I'm not so sure about the Executary machine. The recorder circuit in these was very simple, apparently: a carbon mic in series with a DC power supply and the head. Automatic DC bias, just like the early Magnetophons and some of those infernal rim-drive tape-recorder-toys.

O joy unbounded!

Thanks, Adrian.

Cheers,

Richard

At 07:01 PM 2007-05-02, you wrote:

Hi Richard,

This looks like a cut "magnabelt" which is the magnetic version of a "dictabelt" I know IBM made these machines to record and play them. Good luck finding a working machine. The operative word here is "working".

Adrian Cosentini

Richard L. Hess email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Aurora, Ontario, Canada (905) 713 6733 1-877-TAPE-FIX Detailed contact information: http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.

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