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Speak-o-phone: Turn your PA amp into a record-cutter! (1940)

Records on Acetate or Aluminum discs!  Click here for more info on this early recording service/hardware manufacturer.  

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Popular Science: Basic Radio Techniques c. 1946

Nothing too notable in this book; just love the cover graphic.

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1943: A Dictionary of Radio Terms

From "A Dictionary of Radio Terms," published by the Allied Radio Corp., 1943.

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1940: Radioman Romance

Was electronics repair ever a 'sexy' profession?  "RADIO NEWS" March 1940 seems to make this case.  Wishful thinking, I imagine...…

12 years ago

Magnecord INC archival factory-film now available online

Thanks to H. Layer: A never-before-available Magnecord, INC factory-film circ 1955 (???) is now available on YouTube.  These are the…

12 years ago

Beyond Four Tracks

Sansui six-track cassette format c. 1989 Otari Compact 8-track 1/2" format c. 1989.   Also, SECK mixer. Toa 8-track cassette format…

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Ladies and Gentlemen of 1989 (pop music division)

Cyborg chick with some sort of midi-synchonizer I play the keyboards (for Bon Jovi) (pointy guitars are) impossible to (avoid)…

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The Concept of Home Studio Carried To Its Logical Conclusion

Bathroom Studio Kitchen Studio Yamaha home-studio adverts circa 1989.  Click on the images to expand.

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Synthesizers photographed on stone-colored backgrounds

As the first in a series of "Brief Trends in Visual Culture," we bring you: synthesizers photographed on stone-colored backgrounds. …

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1967

The Selmer Varitone Saxophone amplification system circa 1967.  Click here for previous coverage on PS dot com.  I once bought…

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