10 Mar
2023
10 Mar
'23
6:46 p.m.
On 3/10/23 06:14, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
As witnessed by some ijits rolling a 10.5" reel with 1/2" Ampex 456
audio tape down a road on a hill here a couple of weeks ago. It
apparently took them two tries to fully unload the 2500' reel. It took
me 3 days to collect and discard all of the tape, since nobody else
wanted to. Still have the reel--and yes, the hub is smaller than the
computer variety reel.
--Chuck
Hub size looks
small on the 1/2" for later style tapes. 2" tape? I wonder if that was linear?
Had to have impressive motors.
Early on the hub specs tended to vary. For example, the EL-X1 10-track 1/2 inch tape
uses 1/2 inch instrumentation type reels (same as professional audio reels) which have a
bigger hub than the later standard 1/2 inch tapes, with 3 notches.