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Old 26th Mar 2019, 3:03 pm   #1
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Default Baird with BSR deck

Can any one please tell me what model no Baird is this please I have uploaded some pictures
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Old 26th Mar 2019, 3:15 pm   #2
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Default Re: Baird with BSR deck

https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/baird_varsity_101.html

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Old 26th Mar 2019, 3:27 pm   #3
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I love the way you can do a tape recorder with just two (three if you include the magic eye) valves.
 
Old 26th Mar 2019, 9:13 pm   #4
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Default Re: Baird with BSR deck

I had one of these to repair a couple of years ago.

Apparently it's still working (or was when I last spoke to the chap a month or so back).

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Old 26th Mar 2019, 9:20 pm   #5
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Default Re: Baird with BSR deck

TD10 deck.

I think it was reviewed in "Which?" c. 1966.

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Old 26th Mar 2019, 10:49 pm   #6
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Included in a report on 21 recorders costing between £25 and £45 in November 1965.
Only mention of it in the text was not complementary.
"The performance of most of the remaining recorders fell off steeply below about 100 cycles per second or above about 6,000 cycles per second. The poorest machines, with a performance worse even than this, were the Baird, Dansette, KB and Wyndsor."
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I have one too. There is a single transistor in there somewhere and the machine has separate audio output and bias oscillator valves. Mine needed a couple of 50uF 25v electrolytics changing to cure very weak sound. This would have been a Rolls Royce of a tape recorder when I was a teenager in the 1960s. Three speed deck, four tracks, seven inch reels and a nice big 8x5 inch speaker. What more could you want?
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Old 27th Mar 2019, 8:46 am   #8
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Only mention of it in the text was not complementary.
"The performance of most of the remaining recorders fell off steeply below about 100 cycles per second or above about 6,000 cycles per second. The poorest machines, with a performance worse even than this, were the Baird, Dansette, KB and Wyndsor."
Isn't there also a picture of it next to an EL3302, to make it seem like a bit of a prehistoric, lumbering beast?

I agree with Martin though, I wouldn't have turned my nose up at one of these.
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I had one, but was disappointed to find that, although the deck is three speed, there is no switched frequency compensation in the electronics.
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