[BC] logging question

[Milton R. Holladay Jr.]

Metrotech was a popular brand of logging tape recorder
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From: "Donna Halper" <dlh at donnahalper.com>
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Subject: [BC] logging question


> A friend of mine (who used to work at the same station I did back in the
> mid 1970s) and I were thinking back to how the PD used to have to record
> everything that went out on the air-- but we were trying to recall the
name
> of the piece of equipment that did it. It wasn't a skimmer-- it recorded
> everything, not just what the jocks said when they opened the mike.  My
> recollection was the equipment recorded at a very very slow speed and
> ultimately, it recorded over itself, but I vaguely recall having to check
> it and make sure it was recording.  I don't even recall why we used to
have
> to do it, but every day, we recorded everything.  Does anybody remember
> what I am talking about-- it was some kind of a logger... it looked almost
> like a dictaphone or something...
>
>
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