NPR Producer editing audio tape, 1995 

Great machine. Yes NPR went digital much later than many of its own radio stations! The main reason was that it took a long time to find and develop a robust editing system that could work over a network - in the early days audio was on local hard drives, not practical for our large organization where many producers would need to access the same audio simultaneously. Or first digital system was made by Dalet.

It’s threaded properly, look at this image www.hifiengine.com/manual_library/otari/mx-5050.shtml

@@nedwharton No it isn't. You have it going under the post just to the right of the capstan. It is supposed to go over that post, not under. I have a 5050 myself.

@@LegendaryRadioJock Look closely, it’s over the post. But thanks for your interest, nice to see you still have an MX5050, I owned one myself when I was a freelancer then edited on this one at NPR for about 15 years, beautiful machines.

@@nedwharton I did look close, and I even paused it to zoom in. I watchd you lace it and you went over then under. I can see the tape 's back coating under the post.

@@nedwharton do a frame by frame view from 1::40 - 1:42 and watch how the tape comes up to the post. It should be over-over-under but you have it over- under-under.