13 Jan
1998
13 Jan
'98
9:51 a.m.
I was talking to this guy I met at a flea market and he said he has a
storage device that writes data to a spool of wire. Can someone elaborate
on this?
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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13 Jan
13 Jan
11:17 a.m.
I was talking to this guy I met at a flea market and
he said he has a
storage device that writes data to a spool of wire. Can someone elaborate
on this?
I believe Germany used such a system for recording and broadcasting
during World War II.
Anthony Clifton - Wirehead
11:53 a.m.
Wire recorders predated tape recorders. They were in use from the early
1930s, as I recall.
An excellent person to contact on this subject is Jonathan Winter of the
Bellingham (WA) Antique Radio Museum. You can reach him at
jwinter(a)pacficirim.net, tell him Kevin sent you! He has some examples of
wire recorders in his collection.
Also see his site on the web, its at http://www.antique-radio.org/
Kevin
At 03:51 PM 98/01/13 -0800, you wrote:
I was talking to this guy I met at a flea market and he said he has a
storage device that writes data to a spool of wire. Can someone elaborate
on this?
Sam Alternate e-mail:
dastar(a)siconic.com
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Kevin McQuiggin VE7ZD
mcquiggi(a)sfu.ca
1:19 p.m.
Kevin McQuiggin wrote:
Wire recorders predated tape recorders. They were in use from the early
1930s, as I recall.
They were critical to the plots in a number of Doc Savage pulps, as I
recall. Though admittedly I didn't read them when first issued.
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.
11:02 p.m.
At 03:51 PM 1/13/98 -0800, you wrote:
I was talking to this guy I met at a flea market and he said he has a
storage device that writes data to a spool of wire. Can someone elaborate
on this?
Sam Alternate e-mail:
dastar(a)siconic.com
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Wire recorders for sound recording were quite common in the '40s and '50s
before the tape recorder took off. I still have one that was a combination
record player and w.r. The turntable acted as a take up reel. The wire
broke easily and was awful to splice.
Cheers
Charlie Fox
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