23 Aug
1997
23 Aug
'97
4:56 p.m.
On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I was checking out the local surplus shop looking for
a 19" rack for my
latest computer project, no luck there but I did find some other stuff.
What I'm really wondering about is this tape cartridge I found:
COUSINO
Echo-matic II
Self Threading
Tape Cartridge
Orrtronics, Incorporated
Toledo, Ohio, USA
It's quarter inch tape in a clear case approximatly 1" x 3.5" x 5" in
size,
and rounded on one end. The actual tape reel is about 2.25" and has almost
no tape on it. The tape looks to be a continous loop. Does anyone have
any idea what this is?
Zane
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Reaching back more years than I like to think about, I believe that it is
a tape for a telephone answering machine. Not the kind that takes
messages, but the type that delivered a message to the caller.
There may well have been other applications also, but that one rings a
faint chime.
- don
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