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Radio Wrangler · 21st Sep 2018, 8:46 pm

Sometimes the same problem draws the same solution out of different people, or designers are just inspired by something and follow it in general terms.

What would be stronger evidence of copying would be if there was a known design error/defect or out and out whoopsie that was known in say the A700 and found in the Soviet recorder.

Otherwise designers around the world saw that it made sense to put tape recorder reels side-by-side and not stack them, to mount jet engines off the wing not inside them, to distribute AC power... etc etc and many many ideas spread. The exceptions are in the minority.

David

21st Sep 2018, 8:46 pm	#22
Radio Wrangler Moderator Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Fife, Scotland, UK. Posts: 22,869	Re: Soviet HI-FI Sometimes the same problem draws the same solution out of different people, or designers are just inspired by something and follow it in general terms. What would be stronger evidence of copying would be if there was a known design error/defect or out and out whoopsie that was known in say the A700 and found in the Soviet recorder. Otherwise designers around the world saw that it made sense to put tape recorder reels side-by-side and not stack them, to mount jet engines off the wing not inside them, to distribute AC power... etc etc and many many ideas spread. The exceptions are in the minority. David __________________ Can't afford the volcanic island yet, but the plans for my monorail and the goons' uniforms are done