How about dicta-belts. Belt dictaphones. On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:31 AM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > From: "John Mullan" > >> Who remembers transcription disks? Radio shows were distributed to the >> radio stations on large diameter 78 RPM records. That was the reason for >> the "island" turntables in radio studios, to allow overhang of the large >> disks. They eventually went to phone line networks. Early television was >> distributed over the phone line. The T1 line was designed to carry one >> television signal. > > I don't "remember" them - at least not as 78s - but I know what they were. > > When I encountered them years later they had migrated to using standard size > 33-1/3 rpm LP records. > > When I worked in TV in the early 70s, the network signal came down the > telephone company's microwave chain & was spit out directly to an antenna on > our remote control tower. We also sent the signal from the studio out to the > transmitter via microwave. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. >
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