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A recorder with wire ?!?!? What the heck ??? Are you sure it was a recorder and not, say, a yoyo of a rather largish model ? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />



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Apparently in the early 50s wire recorders and tape recorders were both still being developed and refined at much the same time, and were competing directly in the marketplace.

The one I was given looked a little bit like this, except that it had wire on the spools (the one in this pic has tape). And of course the wire was nicely tangled by the time it was given to me. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

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There's more about them here:

Wire Recorders