8 Dec
2015
8 Dec
'15
8:53 p.m.
The "carts" were 4 track tapes. it was a popular radio station
automation system back in the old days.
The first radio station i engineered at used them and i was QUICK to
convert them to a computer based
automation system way ahead of most other stations.
On 12/8/2015 8:56 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
Hi all --
I have recently acquired a PDP-8/m system that was used to drive a radio
automation rig (very very similar to this: http://www.bowkera.com/kcbs1.htm
).
My understanding is that this system hooked to banks of what were
essentially 8-track tape drives, each of which held a short loop of tape
(containing a song, an ad, call info, etc.) and the 8/m was programmed with
a playlist of sorts so that even in the early 70s you didn't need to have a
real DJ on premises to run a radio station. (I had no idea this sort of
thing went back that far!)
This one was used at KRDU (Fresno's Christian Radio). At any rate, it's
neat hardware. All I have is the 8/m, a custom front panel (as seen in the
pictures on the site I linked above) and a bank of Omnibus backplanes
holding cards that would drive the tapes and mix audio.
I really have no use for the tape-control / audio mixing hardware since I
don't have the tapes and I'm not *really* planning on running an automated
radio station out of my basement (though it does sound fun). I'm not about
to scrap the stuff (it's at least useful for parts) but I thought I'd see
if anyone out there could actually make use of it for its intended purpose.
- Josh
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