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‘Tis #TapeBoxTuesday

SoundMirror Audio Tape, late 40s

Magnetic Paper Tape
Yes it really is Paper!
It’s kinda like Magnetic Carbon Paper

Surprisingly strong, sounds excellent
NO Shedding or Sticky Tape Syndrome

Don't get many in for Archiving, but they are always good & play fine

Playing on Sony TC-785 Auto Reverse, c 1974

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Feb 17 at 11:06amWeb
Show threadSteve KØSTKFeb 17
@avavsystems @obsoletemediauk Nice! Any possibility of hearing a sample?
Show threadCaptain BaraFeb 18

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I was under the impression that recording tape came out of Nazi Germany. It was one of the technologies we looted at the end of the war. Its fidelity was superior to the magnetic wire that had been used in the US and elsewhere.

Was the 1945 German recording tape already a type of plastic? What problem did SoundMirror think they were solving by using a paper substrate?

Show threadAVAV SystemsFeb 20
@captainbara @obsoletemediauk I assume the problem they were solving was, following a certain big disagreement - involving those Nazis you mentioned - there was a really desperate shortage of raw materials. Especially in England - which was bombed to pieces by those very same Nazis funnily enough - plastics would have been in short supply & I think expensive. Added to which governments of a lot of countries would want those materials for rebuilding
But paper, well, it grows on trees
Show threadGravelvoiceFeb 24
@avavsystems @obsoletemediauk PAPER!