Art wrote:

I know absolutely nothing about tape units (reel to reel).

The in a garage I picked up two tape units. Was told one was working and
one was parts.

Do these things have any use or value to anyone?

Or do I just have a heavy boat anchor?


That looks like one of the ITC tape decks used for early radio
station automation, or production work ITC made lower cost R-R and cart
machines for radio stations. AFRTS had some ITC equipment in their
stations in the early '70s. The dual Cart player in the TV studio, and
the single cart recorder in the radio studio were ITC. The other cart
machines were a single ITC, and a Gates Spotmaster. The R-R was a two
track Scully 280.

Equipment like this is being replaced by computer based automation
equipment, where they either control multiple, multi disk CD players, or
convert the music and commercials to store them all on a large hard
drive.

As far as value, it depends. All of my R-R tapes were lost a few
years ago, about 400 hours of country music from the '20s to the '70s.
Tape is getting harder to find. The last catalog I got for bulk
duplicating supplies didn't have any reference to R-R supplies. OTOH, if
it has a good set of heads, it would be good for converting old material
to CDs


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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida