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Old 27th Jun 2021, 2:22 pm   #21
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It was also "rim drive" so the treble response improved somewhat as each 21 minute side progressed: the reverse of a phonograph disc where it usually got worse.
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Old 27th Jun 2021, 2:50 pm   #22
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sounds a bit lo-fi, more of a novelty, but what a machine
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Old 27th Jun 2021, 4:30 pm   #23
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I repaired one of these back in the late 1960s. The rewind speed was incredible for the size of the 'roll' of tape. I still remember the fault. It used a couple of Hivac style magnetic reed switches and one of them was O/C. It sounded fantastic! Used mainly in cafe's and eating places generally as background music. J.
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Old 27th Jun 2021, 6:00 pm   #24
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During my life I've seen some odd things, but this!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want one.
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Old 27th Jun 2021, 9:29 pm   #25
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Well,

back in the 70s when I lend a hand to some repairmen I remember it was not nice to work on these 5001s. Over here they were quite common in bars, pubs, restaurants and running almost 10hrs per day.

So then came they day when you got that cigarette-smoke smelling thing paced on the desk with the comment: "Does not keep track exactly and speed does vary somehow. Get it fixed as soon as possible!" In my eyes all were done to get binned but I never could persuade an owner to part with it.

At ITT Schaub Lorenz they employed some (former Lorenz) brilliant engineers who had designed very sophisticated mil gear.

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Old 28th Jun 2021, 12:57 pm   #26
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I've been fascinated by these machines since I first learned of them in the 90s. Not that I am ever likely to have room for one, or permission of the spousal unit....

Maybe there are German members here who can confirm or deny....but I got the impression from the West German teenagers i got to know in the 80s through a school programme were rather more concerned over copyright infringement than we British kids were. They were quite scared off the idea of swapping dubbed cassettes with each other and there was some talk of VHS recordings being wiped after three months. More recently I am told that it is typical of German PVR devices to automatically erase recorded TV shows after three months. Was the "cassette tax" adopted in (West) Germany?

It could be that copyright was a big part of the reason why this unit didn't succeed. Though it was certainly also non-standard and the tape couldn't be swapped.
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Old 28th Jun 2021, 1:53 pm   #27
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Now that certainly does make sense as a 'canned music' machine, but its inability to swap tapes must have made it a non-starter. I guess the unchangeable drum was a consequence of the high precision needed in track alignment (approx 0.7mm track width), made worse by wear in the head jerking up and down!
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