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VIDEO PALS
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INTRODUCTION: |
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I
am going back some 45 years to 1960. I purchased
my first reel to reel tape recorder. It was a Grundig
TK20..... for the life of me I cannot remember why I
purchased it. There was, at this time a magazine called
Amateur Tape Recording & Hi-fi. At the rear of this
publication was a listing of peoples names, address and
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The idea was that one could
contact a person in the listing, with a view to corresponding
with them on audio tape, i.e.,...... Talking to a microphone,
imagining it was a person and recording your voice on to tape
and sending that recording to the other person. He or she would
listen to what you had to say, make notes, erase the tape,
record their own voice and send it back to you. Like pen-pals
write letters..... so we did a 'sound' letter. |
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It was not long before I was
exchanging tapes with four or five people..... I will add here
that two of those contacts , Roy and Margaret Cooper in
New Zealand and John and Peter Douglas in
Scotland. |
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I am still in contact with them....
That's a 45 year friendship! I have never met the Coopers,
but twins John and Peter have become like brothers and we
visit each other every year.
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So, let us move on a few years, to
when I got married to June in 1964. We rented a flat
in Oxford Street, Wellingborough. I now had more Hi-fi
items and had built a unit in the corner so I could sit comfortably
and do my 'TAPESPONDING', as it was now known. |
I had a nice radio and a second tape
recorder, a 'Cossar', so I could now copy items that were
sent to me. I also had more 'Tapespondents' as I had now
joined a Tape Corresponding Club called 'TAPEWORMS
INTERNATIONAL'. It cost about five shillings to join
that's equivalent to 25 pence in English money today..... and you
received a directory of members from all over the world.
This directory listed Names, Addresses, age, interests of
anything up to 400 people worldwide.... all of them looking
for Tapespondents. Wow! By the time I had moved to my new
address six months later I was Tapesponding with 25
people from all over the world including America, New
Zealand, Australia, Canada, Kuala Lumpar,
Holland as well as the British Isles. This was a good
excuse to get more 'Toys'. That's what we called these
necessary items to further our interests. |
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I now had two
SONY reel to reel tape decks, a Sony Amplifier,
a Sony Tuner, a Sony Portable battery & mains operated
tape recorder, a Garrard Turntable and.... Wow! The very
latest gadget at the time......... A Sony Cassette
recorder!
With all this equipment being added, things were really taking off.
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