Tape Loop Announcer Featured on Techmoan Fixed And Wired Up! 

Panasonic RS-296

3M Scotch Handle

sticky tape dispenser

Pioneer CT-W606DR

Does my very first cassette recorder from the 70s, made in Poland, qualify? Was mono, had no extras, and worked for years. Later on I got s so called Geracord, which was the data storage device for my U880 home computer KC85. Btw, still having some Home Computers out of the GDR, and they still work.

Why your channel isn't verified yet? :/

Nice announcement on the loop 😀

Loved the collab!

I always suspected "Matt" was just a pseudonym. lol

This really is the best tribute to the old bit of kit.

it was inevitable !

Look Techmoan no computer. I love it when my worlds come together!

But... But... This channel is specially about no computers! 😀

Pre 2000 allowed Jako haha

Yeah, bugger that No Computer stuff. I'm sure 8-Bit guy could create a small PIC board to emulate all functions of that room of wire mess, allowing tape player to work as a stand-alone device on display.

@@aleksandrbmelnikov it works without all that mess anyways?

@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER You need at least one phone on outside of display case, for visitors to enjoy and understand context of how message player was once used. Thankfully, we live in age when this can be accomplished in smaller form factor with less wasted electric.

why do people use commas instead of decimals. It's like using F* in your report when the whole world uses and expects C* Imagine if I said 43,898% is different than 43.898% one says fourtythree-thousand-eighthundred-ninetyeight and the other still just 43%

@@Wtfinc in my country we use commas for decimals. I hope you don't lose more sleep over that because I'm going to keep using commas and the metric system too.

@@nunofernandes4501 ill be up for days

@@Wtfinc oh gosh, you missed the apostrophe and the capital "i" in "I'll", it reads "ill" as in "sick" or "unwell". Now it is I who won't be able to sleep.

@@nunofernandes4501 mind. blown. Thank you for your service EX122.989.112.0.4A, we count on you!

hahaha not intended but it sorta does haha

​@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Andy (I think his name is) doesn't respond well to back-seat drivers, so definitely fitting (even if it was accidental). Next time I'm in the UK I will be sure to visit the museum. It looks so much fun.

Thats what i tbought!

oh......I popped it

Reminded me of Harry Enfield "You Don't Want To Do It Like That" character.

ONLY MEEEE

phony...

Mmmmm. I remember that smell.

Slight hint of bakelite.

That heady mix of magic smoke and bakelite. That warm fuzzy feeling all over might be cancer but who cares!

Weird to think that we can somehow remember a smell and it fondly reminds me of watching and helping my grandad fix various things. I'm off now to burn some resistors etc to try and jog some memories lol.

I'm old so I know that smell.

Yeah, it's the same feeling when you think up something nonsense, Google it, and you have an impression that the universe is probably creating the very thing as a reaction to your search in that instant.😁

Right I was thinking, "I wonder what kind a life the woman had and if she is still alive or not?" It's good that it has been preserved.

@@bainsk8 agrre

We probably are

The guy that done the famous 'Mind The Gap' announcement for London Underground in the late 60s is still alive I believe.. in his late 80s/90s now though. If this recording is from the 1980s I'm sure this lady is still going, it wasn't that far back lol she's hopefully living it up on a cruise somewhere.. although with the current cost of living she's maybe stacking shelves in some Tesco Extra up north to supplement her pension, poor thing.

It made me think of Boards of Canada

YES, that’s it! My brain was chewing on that in the background and you’re just right. “Is there anybody out there?”

"this is the United States calling, are we reaching... see, he keeps hanging up. And it's a man answering..."

big this

BLERP BLERP! BLERP BLERP! BLERP BLERP!

Hello there

Look who it is!

:D

oi

WHAT happened to the original tape? I hope it was properly stored & preserved

@@electrictroy2010 Sort of. AFAIR it was very muffled but Techmoan tried to restore the content which only made the hiss much more audible. He made a video about that on his channel: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3z8z0sbLsrw.html

I recently viewed a video with an alarm clock that works just like that. Very ingenious combination of mechanics and magnetically stored sound.

Same here in the UK. We also had 'Dial A Disc' for listening to a song. As kids we got around paying for the service in public callboxes by tapping out the number on the receiver cradle pins. From memory, it was a short number, like 16 or 116. It was actually quite boring, but we lived in a small town and 'stealing electricity', which would be the technical term for the crime, was about the most exciting thing that happened in town. Living the dream......

@@horsenuts1831 Great... now I've got to go out and see if the few coin phones we've got left will let you dial that way without paying :-D I definitely know our exchanges still support pulse dial, so the technique in itself works, the question is how advanced these modern phones are in terms of preventing free calls. The problem is I don't think there are any services with reasonably short numbers left in Austria, the speaking clock was one of the last to be shut down probably ten years ago, the number was 1503. It was neat for testing unknown phones. The next-best thing I can think of is trying to find a public phone in a rural area that still has some 4-digit numbers, like my parents' weekend getaway.

@@horsenuts1831 wasnt it called abstracting electricity

@@horsenuts1831 I think in the US it's called wire fraud or some such. "Phone phreaking" used to be something hackers would do once they figured out the tones that gave you free long distance dialing. Steve Wozniak said he and Steve Jobs used to do it before they founded Apple; driving around to random pay phones and hacking the phone system. They had homemade tone boxes in the car and Wozniak says they were always afraid they'd get stopped by a cop and charged.

The old 'Dial A Disc'.. I also remember the old trick of tapping out the number to listen for free, but there was also (this took more practice) putting a coin in the slot but holding on to it and pulling it back out at just the right time. We were all obviously determined juvenile criminals

:D

Samesies. For some reason old electronics are life-affirming a f

it's the physical manifestation of what goes on in a small corner of a cpu as it executes 10 lines of codes really slowly!

Unless you're a pensioner it's pretty safe.

@@alexanderhanksx I'm immunocompromised and infection rates are still high, it's not safe.

mat is a nice fellow!

Nick, I was thinking the exact same thing. You definitely want this guy on your team when it all goes to crap, which BTW is an inevitability.

You basically would just have to short all of the pins on each line together, and they likely made a jumper block just for that purpose.

Congratulations for being the first to support the algorithm. 🥇

@@awatt lol