28-05-2023, 02:08 PM
It's an interesting use of the word "portable". It's a 1955 full track mono machine, so no flipping the spools. Also I think the coating is on the outside like cassette tape.
Had great chat with Frank, who had thought he was picking up a VTR.
A 1979 U-matic VCR is about the same weight (29 kg) and no-one ever called those portable. There were portable U-matics, but I only ever saw and used the "table top" models.
The first commercial 2" VTR was in 1956, though Telefunken had invented helical scan in 1953. I have a working Telefunken Magnetophon (a real portable), but it's approximately a 1965 model (made 1964-68), not the K1 of 1935. Amazing the change in 10 years as the 1/2 track is essentially better than the EMI. https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/telefunken...300_1.html
Amazingly the belts didn't need replaced, though I'd bought a set and a couple of months later I bought the exact model of microphone used, though the knob needed some repair. As it was for portable interviews the mic has a VU meter (driven from recorder) and gain control!
Had great chat with Frank, who had thought he was picking up a VTR.
A 1979 U-matic VCR is about the same weight (29 kg) and no-one ever called those portable. There were portable U-matics, but I only ever saw and used the "table top" models.The first commercial 2" VTR was in 1956, though Telefunken had invented helical scan in 1953. I have a working Telefunken Magnetophon (a real portable), but it's approximately a 1965 model (made 1964-68), not the K1 of 1935. Amazing the change in 10 years as the 1/2 track is essentially better than the EMI. https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/telefunken...300_1.html
Amazingly the belts didn't need replaced, though I'd bought a set and a couple of months later I bought the exact model of microphone used, though the knob needed some repair. As it was for portable interviews the mic has a VU meter (driven from recorder) and gain control!
