[BC] logging question

[Mike McCarthy]

Dictaphone made a broadcast logger.  It used special 10" reels which 
could record 4+ days on a single reel.  I've thrown out several in past 
years in palce of HD based systems.

Many 911 centers have 16 or more tracks on 1" tape that are being used 
today.  However, with the increasing HD sizes and programs which can 
take as manay as 32 incoming audio channels at once, it's becoming more 
practical to record to HD.

MM 

> 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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