Malcolm Bmoor
Second Unit
Sorry but here's another of my old time anecdotes:
In 1967-68 I spent part of a pre-drama school year working in the very large HMV Record Store on London's Oxford Street.
Cassettes hadn't yet flourished but were gathering force, eight tracks were beginning and there were some reel to reel versions of the most popular LPs. But whereas all LPs were 12 inch irrespective of their running time (10 inch LPs had died out by then) many people didn't understand why a 3 3/4inch reel of tape running at 3.75 ips didn't seem to have much tape and frequently looked like half a reel.
We all tried to explain that there was enough tape for the recording and it ran for the same time as the LP but there was widespread suspicion. That could have something to do with why they died out as unless you looked at cassettes very carefully, because the actual cassette was standard, it wasn't obvious to the astonishingly untechnical that the amount of tape varied according to the length of the programme.
I can't remember where I bought it but I had a 7.5 ips 1/4 track stereo of HOW THE WEST WAS WON and it sounded terrific.
In 1967-68 I spent part of a pre-drama school year working in the very large HMV Record Store on London's Oxford Street.
Cassettes hadn't yet flourished but were gathering force, eight tracks were beginning and there were some reel to reel versions of the most popular LPs. But whereas all LPs were 12 inch irrespective of their running time (10 inch LPs had died out by then) many people didn't understand why a 3 3/4inch reel of tape running at 3.75 ips didn't seem to have much tape and frequently looked like half a reel.
We all tried to explain that there was enough tape for the recording and it ran for the same time as the LP but there was widespread suspicion. That could have something to do with why they died out as unless you looked at cassettes very carefully, because the actual cassette was standard, it wasn't obvious to the astonishingly untechnical that the amount of tape varied according to the length of the programme.
I can't remember where I bought it but I had a 7.5 ips 1/4 track stereo of HOW THE WEST WAS WON and it sounded terrific.