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  1. #8TrackTuesday #DeadFormats

    Despite their releasing six albums in the early 70s, I suspect you aren't familiar with the #FamleyGuitarBand. This is partly because their albums only ever saw release on #Quadraphonic #8Track - as well as on the even more obscure 7 ½ ips #ReelToReel format. Famley Guitar Band were a studio-only group that gave us loungy, guitar led instrumental versions of the hits of their day, and were surprisingly good at it - their winsome version of #DannyOKeefe's "Goodtime Charlie's Got the Blues" gets me every time.

    Quad 8-tracks are a trip: since the format required twice the tape to create the surround-sound effect, it cut the available play time on a tape in half. You'd only be able to hear the full effect on special quad players, as playback on normal 8-track players resulted in hearing just half (i.e. 2 channels) of the music.

  2. #8TrackTuesday #DeadFormats

    Despite their releasing six albums in the early 70s, I suspect you aren't familiar with the #FamleyGuitarBand. This is partly because their albums only ever saw release on #Quadraphonic #8Track - as well as on the even more obscure 7 ½ ips #ReelToReel format. Famley Guitar Band were a studio-only group that gave us loungy, guitar led instrumental versions of the hits of their day, and were surprisingly good at it - their winsome version of #DannyOKeefe's "Goodtime Charlie's Got the Blues" gets me every time.

    Quad 8-tracks are a trip: since the format required twice the tape to create the surround-sound effect, it cut the available play time on a tape in half. You'd only be able to hear the full effect on special quad players, as playback on normal 8-track players resulted in hearing just half (i.e. 2 channels) of the music.

  3. #8TrackTuesday #DeadFormats

    Despite their releasing six albums in the early 70s, I suspect you aren't familiar with the #FamleyGuitarBand. This is partly because their albums only ever saw release on #Quadraphonic #8Track - as well as on the even more obscure 7 ½ ips #ReelToReel format. Famley Guitar Band were a studio-only group that gave us loungy, guitar led instrumental versions of the hits of their day, and were surprisingly good at it - their winsome version of #DannyOKeefe's "Goodtime Charlie's Got the Blues" gets me every time.

    Quad 8-tracks are a trip: since the format required twice the tape to create the surround-sound effect, it cut the available play time on a tape in half. You'd only be able to hear the full effect on special quad players, as playback on normal 8-track players resulted in hearing just half (i.e. 2 channels) of the music.

  4. #8TrackTuesday #DeadFormats

    Despite their releasing six albums in the early 70s, I suspect you aren't familiar with the #FamleyGuitarBand. This is partly because their albums only ever saw release on #Quadraphonic #8Track - as well as on the even more obscure 7 ½ ips #ReelToReel format. Famley Guitar Band were a studio-only group that gave us loungy, guitar led instrumental versions of the hits of their day, and were surprisingly good at it - their winsome version of #DannyOKeefe's "Goodtime Charlie's Got the Blues" gets me every time.

    Quad 8-tracks are a trip: since the format required twice the tape to create the surround-sound effect, it cut the available play time on a tape in half. You'd only be able to hear the full effect on special quad players, as playback on normal 8-track players resulted in hearing just half (i.e. 2 channels) of the music.

  5. #CD #Cassette #reeltoreel

    What can the analog technology of magnetism tell us in the post-digital era?—The future of “Reel to Real” seen through the reprint of Rhino High Fidelity

    monumental-movement.jp/en/Colum-Ree...

    [Column] Open reel revival the...

  6. If you found a Hornyphon WM-5104 reel to reel tape deck in the street for free would you take it home? Because apart from being a good-looking 1961 piece of tech, I think we have to agree that Hornyphon is objectively the funniest name for a manufacturer of audio equipment.
    #reeltoreel #hornyphon #taperecorder #studio

  7. If you found a Hornyphon WM-5104 reel to reel tape deck in the street for free would you take it home? Because apart from being a good-looking 1961 piece of tech, I think we have to agree that Hornyphon is objectively the funniest name for a manufacturer of audio equipment.
    #reeltoreel #hornyphon #taperecorder #studio

  8. If you found a Hornyphon WM-5104 reel to reel tape deck in the street for free would you take it home? Because apart from being a good-looking 1961 piece of tech, I think we have to agree that Hornyphon is objectively the funniest name for a manufacturer of audio equipment.
    #reeltoreel #hornyphon #taperecorder #studio

  9. If you found a Hornyphon WM-5104 reel to reel tape deck in the street for free would you take it home? Because apart from being a good-looking 1961 piece of tech, I think we have to agree that Hornyphon is objectively the funniest name for a manufacturer of audio equipment.
    #reeltoreel #hornyphon #taperecorder #studio

  10. Talk about the ether giving up its dead. Someone found a original 1973 reel to reel tape of Bell Labs UNIX-4!!!!! #computers #unix #reeltoreel

    now where did I put my DEC PDP-11 so I can load the bootstrap?

    AND: Is my copy of god help us OS/2 WARP!!!!!!!! valuable lol

    ksltv.com/local-news/computer-

  11. Talk about the ether giving up its dead. Someone found a original 1973 reel to reel tape of Bell Labs UNIX-4!!!!! #computers #unix #reeltoreel

    now where did I put my DEC PDP-11 so I can load the bootstrap?

    AND: Is my copy of god help us OS/2 WARP!!!!!!!! valuable lol

    ksltv.com/local-news/computer-

  12. Talk about the ether giving up its dead. Someone found a original 1973 reel to reel tape of Bell Labs UNIX-4!!!!! #computers #unix #reeltoreel

    now where did I put my DEC PDP-11 so I can load the bootstrap?

    AND: Is my copy of god help us OS/2 WARP!!!!!!!! valuable lol

    ksltv.com/local-news/computer-

  13. Talk about the ether giving up its dead. Someone found a original 1973 reel to reel tape of Bell Labs UNIX-4!!!!! #computers #unix #reeltoreel

    now where did I put my DEC PDP-11 so I can load the bootstrap?

    AND: Is my copy of god help us OS/2 WARP!!!!!!!! valuable lol

    ksltv.com/local-news/computer-

  14. Currently spinning: this awesome Christmas present from my wife.
    #analog #tape #reelToReel #jazz

  15. Currently spinning: this awesome Christmas present from my wife.
    #analog #tape #reelToReel #jazz

  16. Currently spinning: this awesome Christmas present from my wife.
    #analog #tape #reelToReel #jazz

  17. Currently spinning: this awesome Christmas present from my wife.
    #analog #tape #reelToReel #jazz