Tony,
there is a vintage recorder section, with a number of very knowledgable
users on the forum listed above.
Yes, but are they going to flame me for posting about non-valved,
domestic-quality machines? Something like the EL3586 'Upright' machine
I've just bougut?
ObCC. This machine is very much the immediate predecessor of the cassette
recorder, it's 1+78 ips tape speed, one track in each direction on normal
1/4" tape. The connectors seem to be the same as the connectors on the
first Philips cassette recorders (at least according to the schematic
glued inside the case :-)), I indend to try using it with a home computer
sometime. Just for the hell of it.
-tony