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On Mar 27, 4:49 pm, "Arny Krueger" wrote:
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On Mar 27, 1:28 pm, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

Look, it's a freaking dictation format. The fact that
it's even remotely usable for music is a miracle.

Absolutely right. Norelco designed the format for
dictation machines, not realizing that people would latch
on to it as convenient format for music storage. As it
was, what manfactuers like Nakamichi were able to achieve
with the format was truly a miracle.

I've always wondered what might have happened if
Norelco's engineers had realized the potential of the
format during the design stage. They might have made
different design decisions that could have extended the
life of the format in the marketplace.

One weakness was simply the width and length of the tape - not enough.

Another, was the format's heavy reliance on tolerances set by the cassette
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true- it shared all the foibles of the 8-track cartridge format

well, almost all

but the 8 cart, being wider tape, actually didn't move around on the
head as much