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tony sayer wrote:
In article , Dave Plowman (News)
scribeth thus
The first digital audio recorders used video tape transports. Indeed the
CD 'red book' was based on how long a standard U-Matic tape ran. So it
would be fair to call it a memory - just not a RAM one. ;-)


Wasn't that the F1 ?? or some such unit?..

Not sure Tony. Never actually saw one. The first digital recorder I came
across was IIRC the 610 - which used a Sony Betamax as the transport. That
had a slightly wider video bandwidth than the low band U-Matic. It was
short lived as DAT arrived soon after.

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