On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:45:28 -0800 (PST), terry
wrote:

Someone wrote "How about a "cassette" recorder that used Cassettes
about 6X8 inches
with the wide tape like used on the old real to real? Made by RCA "

Reelly?????????????
Yup. I owned one. Made before the little cassete tapes, and If I
Rember Correctly - before the 8 track. I believe. built from '59 to
'64.
Progressing from Cassette (RCA) to Mini-cassette (Philips) to
Micro-cassette.

see
http://www.smecc.org/rca_inc_.htm about half way down the page.

Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_tape_cartridge - more accurate I
believe - the tape WAS 1/4".

YLB18a I believe was the unit I had. See it and hear it at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE0-dLPKcvk


Also see: http://www.connell-labs.com/tape/RCACartridgeTapes.html