On 1/29/2010 6:05 PM spake thus:

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.

Hmm; I wonder how I missed those. I was in grade school in the 1960s, so
presumably those were in use at the time. Maybe I just never noticed
them, but I don't ever remembering seeing one of those tape cartridges.

Actually, it looks like a pretty nice package for tape.


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