yorx triple deck

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Beosystem10

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Are 90s the longest tapes that were available in the colonies then? ;-) With auto reverse and 3 C180s, that would make sense of the electronic equivalent of a Cumberland ringpiece.
 
Beosystem10 said:
Are 90s the longest tapes that were available in the colonies then? ;-) With auto reverse and 3 C180s, that would make sense of the electronic equivalent of a Cumberland ringpiece.
Growing up in the 80s, the longest length we ever saw over here were the C-120s. They weren't common in our household as our obsessive-compulsive home-taping brother considered them a shade unreliable. Anyway, the drug store we bought our tapes from didn't stock them.

Can't imagine the quality a C-180 would have. More dropouts than a Chicago high school and snaps quicker than a San Francisco postal worker having to deliver Christmas catalogs - after the truck breaks down.

Otherwise they're like honest politicians - never seen one, never even heard of one.
 

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Ghetteaux Les Fabulous said:
.... never seen one, never even heard of one.
I posted a photo of one on page 1 of this thread which should take care of thre first part of that quote, but yes, they were a little fragile for use with anything as crude as the vast majority of K7 decks that appear in portable equipment. It didn't prevent my trying the odd few though, mostly TDK, BASF or Scotch. Even my GF-555, a device whose decks have enough torque to pull toy cars across thick pile carpet by means of a piece of thread attached to the toy and to the takeup pin in the deck, never managed to snap a TDK but it did kill a BASF that contained an entire AC/DC performance that some naughty boy :blush: had saved to it with his recording Walkman. Trouble was that the very fine tape, although repairable in the splicing block in the same way as any thicker stock, would never take up evenly once there were chunks of splicing tape scattered along its length, so it would get to a previous repair and snap again at the same place.
Then there was the cost; twice the price of a 90 of the same brand would have seemed fair, but 180s were more like three times as dear however that was considered worth paying because there was a limit to how many K7s a dashing young fella could carry in his slim fitting white jeans. ;-)

Sorry, and to get this back to that sausage box I wonder; when you open one of the doors does the machine play a message telling people to mind the gap?
 
Fiddling with mine, I figured out the button sequence to get all three to play in a row.

With Deck 1 in [Play] press [Play] on Deck 2 (the motor on 2 & 3 decks is cut off when 1 is playing) press [Pause] and [Play] on Deck 3 *after* you've pressed [Play] on Deck 2.

When Deck 1 stops playing the motor for 2 & 3 decks will start and Deck 2 will play.

When Deck 2 stops it will release the [Pause] button on Deck 3 and it will start playing.

BTW pressing [Play] on Deck 2 will also release the [Pause] button on Deck 3 as the two buttons are mechanically linked.

TW5 said:
I got one too
they sound not too bad with some bass kick in there
you can set it up to play through all three decks
by using the pause buttons
:-) :thumbsup:
 
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