What is the oldest reel or other tape you have?

[Jay Pemberton]

Here's my oldest reel, a late-1940s reel of paper tape, on a steel 7" Brush reel. Extremely fragile tape, with many splices in it. Black oxide, with poor output levels.

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s88/Perisphere-photo/Brushtape.jpg

[Jay Pemberton]

Here's the oldest reel of Maxell I have; it must date to the late 1960s.

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s88/Perisphere-photo/MaxellE25.jpg

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s88/Perisphere-photo/Maxell6.jpg

Not something you see everyday: a 6 inch reel of tape. 1/2 mil polyester base, 1800 feet. Right in between a 5 inch reel with 1200 feet, and the 7 inch reel with 2400 feet.

[vinyldavid]

Mine?

Hmmm...that would have to be some Scotch 111 from 1954/1955...

[Web Police]

That is a pretty neat looking box and tapes you have. I love the name Auto Stopper. I think they made another line of tapes called the "Sticky Shedders" or was that Ampex or Scotch? :-oo

The oldest I have is some late 1960's cassette tapes.

[Jay Pemberton]

Thanks, WP! The Maxell tape has a purple leader with 'LONG PLAY-200' printed all along its length, and a red trailer. There is a length of sensing foil spliced between each of these and the tape itself.

'Sticky Shedders' are mostly in the guises of various and sundry 3M and Ampex/Quantegy tape types. (The old Agfa PEM 469, which was designed to compete with the infamous Ampex/Quantegy 456 tape, was also just as bad to go gummy!)

[MacGyver]

here's the oldest tape i own; a japanese market cassette of the carpenter's "now&then" album... ( now in STUWEE's possession)


http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/shaorin-chan/COMPACT%20CASSETTES/DSCF0673.jpg

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/shaorin-chan/COMPACT%20CASSETTES/DSCF0674.jpg

[stuwee]

That Carpenter's tape is frightningly Cool! Very mid 70's by the man's shirt collar, *check* out the house in the background, the shutter and under the window treatment are soooo midwest USA of the period*eyepop*

And car guy stuwee thinks that's a '75-'77 Chevy Monza*hypnot* from the *butt* flugly look of it! Since it's left hand drive, this cover art was cribbed from the original US release?? I never saw one of those! Nice score.

[Fast Forward]

I,ve got about a 1/2 a dozen casettes that I,ll have to pic and post

[Fast Forward]

here's the oldest tape i own; a japanese market cassette of the carpenter's "now&then" album...


http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/shaorin-chan/DSCF0673.jpg

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/shaorin-chan/DSCF0674.jpg
I don,t i ever heard the Carpenters sing any of those songs,,

[MacGyver]

anybody interested in that tape just drop me a line and we can work out a deal... (now in STUWEE's hands)

[Web Police]

I dug up and pristine image on google. stuwee I think you are right in your assessment.

This one is labeled A&M 3519 May 9 1973

http://www.vex.net/~paulmac/carpenter/albums/now_and_then.jpg

[stuwee]

I dug up and pristine image on google. stuwee I think you are right in your assessment.

This one is labeled A&M 3519 May 9 1973

http://www.vex.net/~paulmac/carpenter/albums/now_and_then.jpg

Cool Web, but, I'm way off on the car, omg, that's a US market Toyota 2000 GT, (no outside rear-view mirrors, lhd) I'll be back w/pic this just gets more and more interesting, super sorry about the hijak!

Well, it's close, it is an artists rendering after all!
Lady Ayeka, your chariot awaits.....http://jalopnik.com/cars/jalopnik-fantasy-garage/toyota-2000gt-314291.php
This car made it's debut in a James Bond movie with Sean Connery in the 60's, Now back to old tapes, I just have some of my early '80's Maxell's. I don't know where they're at right at the moment. Craig

[Jay Pemberton]

I thought that was the album whose cover had their actual house in the background, in Downey, California.

[jcmusic]

Her is my oldest, I just opened it about 2 months ago.

Jay

[todd33rpm]

Still trying to puzzle out doing attachments of photos, will see if this works.

The tapes are PlayTapes, circa mid-1960s. Kinks, Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra, among others. I think that my ex-girlfriend's kids are thrashing out to Count Basie and His Orchestra, if I recall correctly.

[TheReeler]

Don't know how to date some tapes. Some prerecorders have the year of production. In my case, I think the oldest with the date written is from 1964.

About the rest, have some BASF and Grundig from the early 60s and one Maxell, very old and small, it's a 3" reel. Don't know where is now, but I'm sure it's somewhere at home.

[hakka26]

Picked this up a couple months ago because it was metal. Read the back and apparently this is a recording of MacArthur's farewell speech. Lead is crinkled but rest of tape look okay.

[Jay Pemberton]

I think his farewell speech was in 1951. Is that paper base tape? What speed is the recording? 7 1/2?

[hakka26]

It's "Red oxide on a plastic base." I haven't fired it up so I don't know the speed.

[Jay Pemberton]

It's acetate base; originally they called it 'plastic' in the years prior to polyester tape.

[DaveInVA]

Here are some old tapes in my collection. The first pic is of a paper tape that was in a metal can labelled "7-47". Also a very early Scotch 111 etc. I'll take some more pics of others I have and add them here later...

Dave

[4tified]

Sony C-90 Cassette from 1970 or earlier. The reason I know this is because the recording on the tape is from April 1970. It sounds very good, and is a basic ferric type 1 formulation.

[Naknut]

I don't know the vintage. Scotch Highlander LN-60. I have two both still sealed.

[dreekeNL]

This is probably one of the oldest ones I have, whoever recorded it wrote the index and date on the leadertape, 1963.

http://www.openreeltapes.com/temp/philips18b01.jpg

http://www.openreeltapes.com/temp/philips18r01.jpg


These tapes are quite good actually. They play and record fine and sound good, except thay have some more background noise compared to newer tapes.
Funny thing is Philips introduced the Low Noise tape in 1971, and those sound great but go all sticky so they aren't playable anymore.
So the older ones last better.