[BC] indentifying the equipment

[Glen Kippel]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 2:08 PM, <RichardBJohnson at comcast.net> wrote:
>I failed to find the name on Google, but I think are those Gates "spotcaster, tapecaster," or whatever, the predecessor to the tape cartridge machine that had a wide belt upon which the commercial was recorded. You selected the next spot by moving a lever across the front of the machine.

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"Tapecaster" was a regular cart machine.  When I went to work for KUDE in oceanside, they had just pulled out their two Gates Spot Tape or Spotcaster (I don't remember which) machines and had put in a Sparta 4-banger.  That wide magnetic belt with the slider was a headache, especially when the jock didn't quite get the handle centered on the tape track."Spotmaster" was of course a cart machine -- one of the first, IIRC.  They used the Viking mechanism that used a cocking lever. 
 
Anybody besides me remember the Ampex machines that used a REAL floppy disk, about the size of an LP?