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[aaronjb]

I bet none of you (ok, except for our German audiophile) have seen one of these before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBNTAmLRmUg

(For those who are allergic to Youtube, google "Tefifon")

What an odd looking thing..

[STEMO]

Great find, Aaron, that's an amazing bit of kit. Got to be someone on here who remembers them.

[aaronjb]

I am wondering if Zirfeld does (now that I've remembered his username :oops: )..

[Mister Rog]

Wunderbar !

[Kevin Wood]

Interesting. I'd heard of them but have never seen one in the flesh. 

One of my Hi-Fi nerd mates did find one of these recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx3OQM55UJQ

We got it working and it appears to be a system whereby premises would rent cartridges of "background music" from some sort of central library. Handy if you own a particularly bad restaurant - or lift, I guess.

The music it played once resurrected was, predictably, absolute bilge.

[Kevin Wood]

Came across something similar to this at a geek meet yesterday evening too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOMnylaE06E

Really crude, plasticky miniature reel-to-reel with not even a capstan for speed stability. More work needed, but it did grumble a bit when we finally got it playing. Boxed with manual and some tapes and the selling point splashed across the front of the box? 4 transistors!

Still, if we're talking about miniature tape recorders, the only one I'd give house room to, and without which no cold war espionage agent would be complete:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eJL49kL4RM

 

I can even put up with the terrible jazz noodling to watch that play.

[zirk]

Ah they old Tefifon, they went out of Business due Counterfeit dodgy Chinese Cartridge Piracy.