Reel-to-Reel Tape Recorder
date: label: date made
content: ca 1965
name: label: maker
content: AWIA Co., Ltd.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The reel-to-reel format did not disappear overnight. This AIWA portable tape recorder dates from the mid-1960s, a time in which both the cassette tape and the 8-track cartridge formats were gaining popularity. Reducing the size of the tape required moving the recording tracks closer together. That in turn required more advanced recording heads that could read and write the narrower tracks, as well as physically-stronger tape.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Magnetic Recording
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content: Communications
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Ramunas A. Kondratas
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0253.01
label: accession number
content: 2006.0253
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0253.01
label: model number
content: TP-30
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tape recorder
label: Object Name
content: recording device
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: vinyl (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 10 in x 6 in; 6.35 cm x 25.4 cm x 15.24 cm