The Educational Tape Scratch Machine
Some of the recent videos I’ve put out have proved to be a bit too obscure and hard going. This one by way of a contrast is short and simple. It features an educational device that found it’s way into the 2017 film Baby Driver.
To give the video more relevance I’ve been waiting for the Blu-ray release before I made this one. Well the time is almost upon us - Baby Driver is out in the US on October 10th and it is already available through some streaming platforms.
Oh and if you are interested in getting hold of one of these machines - there was one on ebay (a simpler model without the sampling ability) the last time I looked - http://ebay.to/2y3nVaz - I’d suggest buying now before the video goes public on Friday.
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Obscure perhaps (a good thing btw), but never, ever hard going. Please don't put yourself, or your work, down. You're at the top of your game Mr Moan, and I, for one, wouldn't want it any other way!
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Ive got one (#80) . Its a beautiful thing.
Another piece of technology moves from mundane to genius, thanks to artistic mis-use!
I wondered if you’d get around to this machine. I do remember messing around with one of these back in grade 4 or 5 back in 1985. This was found buried in the library and I don’t think anybody actually used it. I had forgotten the name of it. Our schools unit did not have memory, however the recording was enable so we ended up recording all kinds of nasty noise and other infantile stuff. I didn’t really see a great use for this even back then, but it was quite interesting.
I've enjoyed the recent videos
Heh...I love how you trolled the critics of your pronunciation of solder and tube. For what it is worth, I heartily endorse your pronunciation.
As a child in the 1980s, I remember using one of these in kindergarten and being fascinated with it. For the longest time, I thought I had made it up, until my mother, who was also a teacher, admitted to it being one of her all-time favorite teaching gadgets. The one I used was called a Language Master and I think it was more like <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bdmI-djTH44/VLRytMcIBAI/AAAAAAAANhk/rjDqLoyxT_Q/s1600/uruuroeurwoiruworuoiuwou.JPG," rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">this one</a>, and no sampling feature!
Wow! I saw one of these in person being used on stage to send signals to a modular at the Trunk Space in Phoenix a few months ago, and I looked to find it when I got home and couldn't. Amazing!!!
I wonder what happens if you run a train ticket through it?!
Unfortunately...or more like Fortunately, I haven't been on a train for a couple of years....so I haven't got any tickets to test.
I liked those cards with sodder and toob thrown in. We're definitely on the same wavelength in the department, Mat.
I first thought you were going to scan my boarding card.
The era of the Alkaline House Music Cassette DJ is upon us.
Hmm, this cries 80s BASIC snippets for the Breadbin and the Doorstopper. :D
God, it's good that we didn't have such equipment. Everyone would start massively copying travel tickets like this (2-3-4): <a href="https://goo.gl/1JBm3S" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/1JBm3S</a>
Great video :)
Oh man, cards with names of teachers, that was a bit creepy.
Neat device. I've never heard of such a thing.
That is the most useless cool thing ever. I love it!
Love it, What a cool bit of kit, Never seen one before, nor see that film, Adding it to my watchlist.
I liked the film, perhaps not as much as the review scores would suggest, but it is still very enjoyable.
Interesting - I remember at least one of my primary school classes having a very similar device, but rather more robust 1970s technology (this would have been England circa 1980, when school technology was still things like giant wooden radios, so something like this was high-tech indeed for the time). It was rather larger, and the casing was more fake wood-grain than beige plastic.
That makes sense - I did see some old magnetic cards for sale in the UK for a different brand of machine.
I loved that movie! I was wondering what that machine was...of course you’d have one. Thank you for the video.
that's an awesome little machine :D never seen it before. cool scratching ;)
Neat find... Movie promotion is suspect... Did someone in marketing put you up for this?
I wish....I think you give me more credit than I’m due.
DJ Techmoan on the er..... cards...
And would have been even cheaper to send than mail call... although you would have to talk like Eminem