Speak-o-phone: Turn your PA amp into a record-cutter! (1940)

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Records on Acetate or Aluminum discs!  Click here for more info on this early recording service/hardware manufacturer.  

Popular Science: Basic Radio Techniques c. 1946

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Nothing too notable in this book; just love the cover graphic.

1943: A Dictionary of Radio Terms

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From "A Dictionary of Radio Terms," published by the Allied Radio Corp., 1943.

1940: Radioman Romance

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Was electronics repair ever a 'sexy' profession?  "RADIO NEWS" March 1940 seems to make this case.  Wishful thinking, I imagine...…

Magnecord INC archival factory-film now available online

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Thanks to H. Layer: A never-before-available Magnecord, INC factory-film circ 1955 (???) is now available on YouTube.  These are the…

Beyond Four Tracks

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Sansui six-track cassette format c. 1989 Otari Compact 8-track 1/2" format c. 1989.   Also, SECK mixer. Toa 8-track cassette format…

Ladies and Gentlemen of 1989 (pop music division)

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Cyborg chick with some sort of midi-synchonizer I play the keyboards (for Bon Jovi) (pointy guitars are) impossible to (avoid)…

The Concept of Home Studio Carried To Its Logical Conclusion

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Bathroom Studio Kitchen Studio Yamaha home-studio adverts circa 1989.  Click on the images to expand.

Synthesizers photographed on stone-colored backgrounds

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As the first in a series of "Brief Trends in Visual Culture," we bring you: synthesizers photographed on stone-colored backgrounds. …

1967

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The Selmer Varitone Saxophone amplification system circa 1967.  Click here for previous coverage on PS dot com.  I once bought…