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Old August 2nd 14, 02:02 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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On Friday, August 1, 2014 2:16:20 PM UTC-4, sctvguy1 wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 16:09:42 -0500, FBMBoomer wrote:







I remember seeing a documentary years ago that said that the Nazis


invented wire and tape recording. It sounds reasonable that they may


have done just that. The U-boat operator would have had to have gotten a


"ready to receive" first from the shore station. I would expect then


that the shore station would be recording and then play it back slowly


so as to be able to read the Morse characters.




Toward the end of the war Hitler got paranoid about bombing and had his


speeches tape recorded and then played back on a radio station in a city


where he was not. It actually fooled the Allies because they had never


heard such clear playback and assumed it was live. This was another


technology that the US was quick to acquire at the end of the war.




Bing Crosby was very interested in tape recording and was one of the

first to really exploit the medium after the war.


Bing Crosby was instrumental financially in helping a startup company. Later it became a huge success. Ampex. P.S. Their main research was strictly magnetic tape recording. Audio and later video. Not wire recording as far as I remember.