Archive of tapes - Reel to Reel and Cassette.

[Techman]

Just for starters..

[RODALCO]

Philips DP 15 cm Ø

[RODALCO]

Philips LP 13 cm Ø ( ± 1964 )

[RODALCO]

Philips DP 15 cm Ø mid 1970's

[RODALCO]

Philips DP 18 cm Ø late 1970's.
Plastic Aluminium looking spool.
Tape suffers bad shedding of magnetic material.

[RODALCO]

Memorex 18 cm Ø ( no leader tape )
Agfa 7.5 cm Ø

[ben]

Originally Posted by Techman

Just for starters..
Attachment 42945

I've had some sticky shed with a few of those Scotch Audio 60 / 90.
These were basically cheap tape aimed at language schools , i.e. speech only. Quality is pretty rough.

[ben]

And another. Scotch AV 177 , dating from the mid 1970s. I have a cassette like this too somewhere with a neat sliding plastic box.

Tinted smoked plastic spool, no leaders, tape dark brown in colour 1.5mil.

[jenkinsrichard]

1. Pan Canada
2. BASF LGS35 - different length to that previously shown
3. Ferrodynamics - brand 5 - not the original tape in box so not shown
4. Scotch 175 - different length to that previously shown
5. Different inside to Scotch box

[Marconi_MPT4]

"Reel to reel performance with cassette convenience" claimed Sony's advertising when Elcaset was released in the 1970's. The tape is 6.3mm (¼ inch) running at 9.5cm (3¾ inches per second) giving a recording time of 90 minutes. Unlike compact cassette, Elcaset tape is automatically pulled out of the housing by the transport mechanism. Although the recorders had a 70us position to take a chrome bias tape I believe none were made. Tape formulations FeCr and SLH are the same as for their open reel format of the period. These tapes came with a non-working EL-5 recorder and when repaired may eventually detail process in the success stories section.

Performance is quoted with dolby switched off, add 5dB@1kHz and 10dB>5kHz:

FeCr as 20Hz to 22kHz signal to noise 62dB
SLH as 20Hz to 20kHz signal to noise 59dB

#1: A compact cassette on steroids? Elcaset compared with a standard compact cassette.

#2: Unboxed Elcaset Ferro-chrome FeCr (type 2)

#3: End-on views of box (top), tape path (middle) and erase protection tabs (bottom)

#4: Unboxed Elcaset Ferric SLH (type 1)

However good the format was on paper it did not sell and after a few years Sony ceased production.

[MikeyPP]

My favourite cassette tape was one made by Teac for a short while in the eighties?

Cassette tapes with little gold 'reel to reel' reels inside

Called Sound52

Sorry no images of my own, but google image search 'reel to reel cassette' and you'll find 'em

[Michael Maurice]

I think these are the ones.

[MikeyPP]

^^^ that's them

[paulsherwin]

Any idea who they were actually made by? Presumably one of the Japanese big boys like TDK or Maxell rather than TEAC themselves.

[MikeyPP]

more than likely, but I've no idea who did actually make them

From memory I only bought 3 or 4 of them cos they were quite expensive compared to a standard cassette, but very cool

[Brian R Pateman]

By the look of the cassette body I'd go for TDK as the manufacturer.

They are very smart indeed.

[Fergusson]

Here are a few of our 1959 tapes dad got for the Grundig TK25, including two original boxed Grundig examples.

[brenellic2000]

Early spring clean! Here are some rarer tapes:

[brenellic2000]

...and Side B:

[brenellic2000]

and Side C - err, Track 3! Note the Durex tape (2nd box from left) has been over printed Scotch Boy. Both used the white plastic spools marked 'Durex'.