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julie_m · 18th Oct 2011, 2:09 pm

I had an EL3302 when I was young. Nice little recorder and as I remember, it had a proper energised erase head as opposed to a permanent magnet -- somebody obviously thought it was better for the machine to eat batteries than eat tapes!

I remember it actually worked OK with a ZX81, once my dad had helped me solder up some suitable leads (3-pin DIN and DIN speaker to 3.5 mm. mono jack plugs); and if anything, the manual recording level control made it slightly more reliable once I had found the right setting.

18th Oct 2011, 2:09 pm	#15
julie_m Dekatron Join Date: May 2008 Location: Derby, UK. Posts: 7,735	Re: History Of Philips EL33XX Series Cassette Recorder I had an EL3302 when I was young. Nice little recorder and as I remember, it had a proper energised erase head as opposed to a permanent magnet -- somebody obviously thought it was better for the machine to eat batteries than eat tapes! I remember it actually worked OK with a ZX81, once my dad had helped me solder up some suitable leads (3-pin DIN and DIN speaker to 3.5 mm. mono jack plugs); and if anything, the manual recording level control made it slightly more reliable once I had found the right setting. __________________ If I have seen further than others, it is because I was standing on a pile of failed experiments.