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Author Topic: A Belt From Gates Radio? RW rip of 'before Tapecaster Cart Machines'.  (Read 301 times)

Offline ThaDood

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https://www.radioworld.com/columns-and-views/roots-of-radio/a-belt-from-gates-radio   Anyone old-time radio buff remember this? I remember for years wanting a Tapecaster Cart Machine, that didn't look like it came from a war-zone. But, by September 1994, that wanting vanished with MiniDisc, to do the same thing as a cart machine. BTW, the bad thing about the Tapecasters is that it was a dirty format, where you had to clean the tape path's in the machines. That, was rarely, if ever, done at many stations. I've been asked by friends, in broadcasting, to visit them to use isopropanol and cotton swabs to do just that, especially college stations. That Gates Belt-Type spot Player sounded pretty reliable, but Tapecaster won-out for decades. (Boomer! Thanks, again...)   
“I am often asked how radio works. Well, you see, wire telegraphy
is like a very long cat. You yank his tail in New York and he
meows in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? Now, radio is
exactly the same, except that there is no cat.”
-Attributed to Albert Einstein, but I ripped it from the latest Splatter .PDF March 2025 issue.

 

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