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Some blasts from My/The Past Been going through My Stuff
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I remember using one of those old Ampex reel-reel machines on the cover. In fact Iremember servicing them. The old Ampex 600 and series and their vacuum tube audio circuits.
I was responsible for maintaining the 350 and 300 3-motor decks at a local radio station 45 years ago. Bought a couple of the 300s when they moved to new studios around 25 years ago. Can't believe I was ever young enough to hoist them up to the attic.
Looks more like a clothes washer than a tape deck. Weighs at least that much.
And they're all mono half-track.
Had the half-psycho notion of "retirement project" to restore them at the time they got stashed in my third-floor attic.
Not sure how many lifetimes I would need to make that happen. Then again, I may have all the tubes I would need stashed, too.
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Looks more like a clothes washer than a tape deck. Weighs at least that much.
And they're all mono half-track.
Had the half-psycho notion of "retirement project" to restore them at the time they got stashed in my third-floor attic.
Not sure how many lifetimes I would need to make that happen. Then again, I may have all the tubes I would need stashed, too.
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Here some more fun? And I also serviced the Old R to R's. as well Mr. Kilowatt along right on up to the Reel to Reels that had 8 trks as well as the whole bunch of other 8 trk's mostly automotive as they were a big deal in the 60 up to the late 70's. This is what happens when you start digging up old files I have about 30 boxes of this stuff and only have looked at 3 or 4 boxes so far found tons of schematics of devices and these were magazines that belonged to my Uncle who was a hell of tech going bac to the 40's and on up to the late 80's when cancer took him. Whish I had images of his shop you would all loved it.
I still have the Heathkit impedance meter I built and the Heathkit VTVM just look at those prices.
I still have the Heathkit impedance meter I built and the Heathkit VTVM just look at those prices.
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I was sitting here looking at that cover and had a strange feeling there something familiar about it and suddenly realized I have that very same microphone Hope is holding in his hand, in the box somewhere in storage.
I'm surprised to see Bob Hope with anything other than a RCA 44 Mic in his hand.
It still works too. One day when I get my AM station up and running again I will use it. For now it is wrapped up in some clean felt waiting to be used again.