Today, we live in a world of highly portable, highly functional electronic media devices of incredible capacity. The songs contained on boxes of 45 RPM records of yesteryear can now be downloaded from ...

When you think of a tape recorder, you might think of a cassette tape. However, [Michael Simpson] has an old Star-Lite small reel-to-reel tape machine. It isn’t a repair so much as a rework to make it ...

QUESTION: I have an old Akai reel-to-reel tape recorder that recently stopped working. I need it to be able to play my collection of old four-track tapes. I’ve called around to a number of repair ...

Steve Williams, my ever-vigilant audio guru friend just sent a couple cute links. One is for a site that archives old Radio Shack catalogs. It includes the 1939 catalog, although it is on that ...

Today's addition to our things-we-didn't-know-we-needed-until-right-now list is an old-fashioned reel-to-reel tape recorder. Despite prerecorded tapes not being sold since about 1976, audio ...

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In the early 1960s, technology companies like Phillips began experimenting with condensing reel-to-reel tape players and recorders into something that could be carried around and used by a layperson.

FORT WASHAKIE -- When Reba Teran was young, her older brother went away to fight in the Vietnam War. After he was wounded in battle, he returned to the Wind River Indian Reservation, carrying a bulky ...

After telling a few stories about how he built a tape recorder as a 16-year-old boy in post-war Germany, [Hans] was finally cajoled into retelling this story in a proper form, giving the Internet one ...

I'm reeling in response to last week's column. That's where push came to shove, and my then-five-months-pregnant wife, who had been mowing the lawn, put the reel mower in my hands. "Surely the reason ...

Alice Cooper has hooked up with Revox to launch his own branded reel-to-reel tape recorder. You probably thought reel-to-reel machines went out around the same time as the wax cylinder, didn’t you?