Tape recorder
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An audio tape recorder, also known as a tape deck, tape player, tape machine, or simply a tape recorder, is a sound recording and reproduction device that records and plays back sounds usually using m
A reel-to-reel tape recorder from Akai, c. 1978
An early experimental non-magnetic tape recorder patented in 1886 by Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory.
Prototype of the Goodale tape recorder. The patent is based on this machine.
This tape recorder of Dr. Goodale is exhibited in the private Phonograph Museum in Mariazell, Austria.
Cassette deck
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A cassette deck is a type of tape machine for playing and recording audio cassettes that does not have a built-in power amplifier or speakers, and serves primarily as a transport. In the 1980s and ear
Tape recorder
…that polarizes the magnetic domains in the tape in proportion to the audio signal. Tape-recording devices include the reel-to-reel tape deck and the cassette deck, which uses a cassette for storage. The use of magnetic tape for sound recording originated around 1930 in Germany as paper tape with oxide lacquered…
A typical late 1980s component deck with Dolby B, C and HXPro (Sony TC-RX55)
A typical portable desktop cassette recorder from RadioShack
Typical top loading stereo cassette deck from mid-1970s
Typical front-loading deck from the late 1970s onward (BASF D-6135 introduced 1979)