Reel to Reel timeline

[ironbut]

There are some web sites that I've been visiting for years and I don't know about you, but for many of them, I just don't take the time to explore all the nooks and crannies. I mean, who has the time to do that with every site?
The Phantom Productions website is one of those. I've used them to find photos and old ads for machines for more than 6 years now and I'm sure I've glanced at this before, but this is a great timeline for all things tape. There are links within it too.

Enjoy!

http://reel2reeltexas.com/vinListYear.html

BTW I'll be adding this to the Reel to Reel links sticky.

[Ki Choi]

Hi Steve:

Thanks as usual for your fine work for the forum.

I was hoping to identify the model number of a very first R2R machine I was exposed to- way back in the mid '70's.  It was a Dokkoder and had double decker reels where one can run original on one of the reels set and a blank reel on the other using the same tape path to make a copy of the original as it played...  It was my brother-in-laws' and I used it so much that I broke one of the wing flanges on reel table (it was made of plastic)... I had tormented over it and tried to glue a new piece of platic and so on but never could get it to work properly since. 

Well, your link brought back the memory (good mostly).

Ki

[steveidosound]

Excellent site!
If you go to the catalog pages, there are pictures and ads some with specifications for machines some consumer and professional back to the earliest days. And if you go to the earlier ones, you can see the transition from disc recording through wire to tape.

Ki, although I have owned a couple of Dokorder machines in my life I have never owned the one that dubbed tapes. I have an 1140 now which is the 4 channel 10.5" reel 15ips "project studio" multitrack.
I also have one of the only other machines that allowed internal tape to tape duplication - the Bell RT-360, which is also pictured on the Phantom R2R Texas site.

[rbwtapeinterlink-Bob]

As usual Steve you do find the kind of information that we can use as a reference for some of the equipment we own. Thanks much for this informative website.

Bob W.