since we collect broadcast gear for radio and TV we would like to buy this depending on where it is located. are there any tapes too??? we are VERY INTERESTED!! thanks ed sharpe archivist for smecc. In a message dated 12/8/2015 9:54:10 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, thrashb...@kaput.homeunix.org writes:
On 9/12/2015 2:26 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: > 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!) > Very interesting. The cartridges were probably NAB cartridges. See <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidelipac>. I got a pile of these from a guy who worked at the ABC (Australia), mostly studio-link failure apology announcements and a few calibration tapes. The content is usually very interesting on these old cartridges. It'd be a shame if the radio station just threw them out! Alexis.
