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the cassette represents the number 45th anniversary of the Coca Cola in Argentina.

"Sound Breeze" 

Business cards:

Another CASINO cassette:

BASF tape with a very unusual shell window.

Another photos of the TDK Golden Cassette:

The cigarette case like cassette:

The Soviet service (torque meter) cassette in metal shell:

thunder posted:

No, this is the Normal type cassette, but there is also a Chrome type cassette (I do not have this).
Маяк done well, but worse than the original TDK MA-R cassette.
Yes, it's a rarity. This cassette were not commercially available. They are only available with the same name recorders (like demonstration tape).

Yes, I remember those ones..... They were made out of metal, not plastic and so heavy you could kill someone by accidentally throwing it out from your balcony

sotza posted:

"Of equal interest is the device in the photo under the FIscher Price with a use I don't know of".

I recognised it as the first ever Digital Camera (prototype) from back in 1975

http://petapixel.com/2010/08/0...ak-and-steve-sasson/

My first thought is "why didn't they use a Floppy Drive like the early Sony Mavica's", but with a bit of research I discovered the 5 1/4" drive was still on the drawing board back then, so an 8" Floppy on a camera would be a bit inconvenient while a cassette was usable.

This got me thinking about a computer terminal I used to occasionally use in the early 1980s.

http://www.textfiles.com/bitsa...rochure_Sep_1973.pdf

As you can see it had twin cassettes drives which were really top of the range with full logic control and (I believe) a three motor mechanism on each deck. They were also reliable, unlike our PDP 11 floppy drives which had a habit of throwing off their belts, or our Loral 1553 test set which used tape cartridges where the tape would sometimes wind right off the end if the sensor missed the hole that was supposed to indicate end of tape. As the apprentice it was my job to fix such items.

A bit more research about the TI silent 700 revealed that it was launched in 1972 at a cost of $2750. Back then that was more than the cost of a new Honda Civic ! 

https://books.google.co.uk/boo...cassette&f=false   

How things moved on in just a few years.

It would be good to find one of those machines.....and use the Mecha Section for my own project....

This thread has become so intereting as to be featured. Thanks for all your photos.

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Very rare souvenir: TEAC OCASSE OPEN CASSETTE TAPE OC-2N!

thunder posted:

Very rare souvenir: TEAC OCASSE OPEN CASSETTE TAPE OC-2N!

I never seen anything like that. Great acquisition!

Please, move my thread to new forum completely!!!