Comments on: British Broadcast Tape Recorder Circa 1935: The Marconi-Stille https://www.preservationsound.com/british-broadcast-tape-recorder-circa-1935-the-marconi-stille/ information and ideas about audio history Sun, 05 May 2024 19:28:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: CHRISTOPHER BUTLER https://www.preservationsound.com/british-broadcast-tape-recorder-circa-1935-the-marconi-stille/#comment-639277 Sun, 05 May 2024 19:28:51 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=2429#comment-639277 In reply to ART SHIFRIN.

PS: you played me that Swedish recording. /CB

]]> By: CHRISTOPHER BUTLER https://www.preservationsound.com/british-broadcast-tape-recorder-circa-1935-the-marconi-stille/#comment-639276 Sun, 05 May 2024 19:27:19 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=2429#comment-639276 In reply to ART SHIFRIN.

Art – you may not remember me: Chris Butler. I met you when you worked at that NYC company with all the amazing machines. And you got my Brush ‘Soundmirror’ Working.

]]> By: ART SHIFRIN https://www.preservationsound.com/british-broadcast-tape-recorder-circa-1935-the-marconi-stille/#comment-636830 Sat, 24 Feb 2024 13:47:33 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=2429#comment-636830 I’M STILL ALIVE. A BIT OF RESEARCH (NOT AT ALL DIFFICULT IN THIS
UTTERLY LOUSY TIME) & WOULD LOVE TO BE TRACKED DOWN BY
ANYONE INTEREST IN THIS TOPIC.

]]> By: ART SHIFRIN https://www.preservationsound.com/british-broadcast-tape-recorder-circa-1935-the-marconi-stille/#comment-624190 Fri, 07 Oct 2022 11:28:36 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=2429#comment-624190 In reply to Bafflegab.

HI,

I’VE LOST TOUCH WITH ROGER BECKWITH (sp?) & WOULD APPRECIATE ONCE AGAIN HAVING THE CORRECT SPELLING OF
HIS NAME & EMAIL ADDRESS S THAT I CAN FINALLY PROVIDE TO
THE APPROX. 18 MINUTES OF EXEMPLARY QUALITY ENGLISH – MARCONI RECORDING THAT WAS PROVIDED TO ME BY THE
SWEDISH RADIO COMPANY CIRCA 1983. MY ILLNESS GOT IN
THE WAY OF FOLLOWING THROUGH KEEPING MY PROMISE TO
HIM. ALSO, I’D LIKE TO PROVIDE REPRO SAMPLES OF CONVENTIONAL POST WAR A.C. BIASED (24 IPS) DERIVED FROM
WHAT I ANOINTED MY AMPEX AG-445C PLAYBACK – ONLY
SYSTEM: WHICH KIT BASHED FROM AMONGST MANY AMPEX PARTS
AND ASSEMBLIES, + HEADS & CUSTOMIZED GUIDES PROVIDED BY
RF MAGNETICS.

]]> By: Bafflegab https://www.preservationsound.com/british-broadcast-tape-recorder-circa-1935-the-marconi-stille/#comment-25381 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 03:22:59 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=2429#comment-25381 There were early mainframe computers that used metal band for mag tape recording too. The results of one of the Eisenhower elections are on a set of tapes the Smithsonian has, but nowhere does there exist a single drive that can read it. Univac had a “scorched earth policy” where their machines were lease only and were destroyed at the end of the lease. This was not rare: WE ERPI did it with theater gear, except at the end they sold it for $1 to the movie house because it wasn’t worth the effort to reclaim it. I think Panavision does this today. When an item is no longer rentable they throw it in the SSI Shredder.

]]> By: Magnetic Film Recording (1953) | Preservation Sound https://www.preservationsound.com/british-broadcast-tape-recorder-circa-1935-the-marconi-stille/#comment-25373 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:08:57 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=2429#comment-25373 […] purely sequential though, and just as there was the short-lived metal-tape recorder of the 1930s (see this previous post for info), the Ampex/Magnecord dominated early magnetic-tape era was challenged (for fidelity, at least) by […]

]]> By: Taking the Message and the Medicine Home « Weekly Update on Aging https://www.preservationsound.com/british-broadcast-tape-recorder-circa-1935-the-marconi-stille/#comment-22976 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:29:44 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=2429#comment-22976 […] Image – https://www.preservationsound.com/?p=2429 […]

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