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What is this foil tape for???

On 8/24/2013 5:00 PM, wrote:
A neighbor is cleaning out some stuff the former owner of her house
left behind several years ago. Included is a roll of 2 1/4" wide
highly polished aluminum?? tape. The code on the box is 4024603-1.
The same code is on the spool itself. A date handwritten on the box
is 7/24/76. Googling the part number seems to indicate it is some
sort of recording tape, but I can't figure out what kind of recorder
it it would go on.

Reel to reel metal tapes of that era were no wider than 1/2", if my
memory serves me correctly. This tape seems to take a
permanentcrease/depression if you push on the surface. It almost
looks like the tape in an old lie detector machine, but those used
regular pens from what I have seen on TV(never had one myself).

Anyone have any ideas what it was used for, and what I could do with
it (polite comments only please).

It could be a broadcast video recording tape. TV stations and TV
networks used the wide tape on big Ampex video tape machines. ^_^

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_tape_recorder

TDD

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