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In Reply to: RE: First cassettes posted by DaveInVA on August 08, 2009 at 10:56:28
Wow, cool story: upconverting 6 volts to 12 in a '49 Packard to power a cassette deck. I had forgotten all about those slide-releases and avoiding theft. Enjoyed that one ! I remember many old marginal cassette decks back in my early college days, but never laid eyes on one that physically flipped the tape. Amazing what steps engineers would take to wow the buying public when R&D budgets were fat, and labor costs not so worried about. It brings to mind the unbelievable 57, 58 and 59 Ford Fairlane retractable hardtop. It was a full-on steel two-tone hardtop that was carried by hydraulics and servo motors backwards to rest under a reverse-opening trunk lid. That way, you got a permanent hard-top AND a convertible in one car, all the way amazing onlookers during the elaborate switchover.
I remember those Ford Fairlanes. Almost as bad as the Maserati Citroen SM I owned a long time ago. Maserati and Citroen had merged for a time in the 70's and made one of the most complex cars ever made. Everything was hydraulic. The engine had a 7 cylinder hydraulic pump attached to the crank shaft that could produce almost 2000 psi through 1/8" tubing. The suspension was hydraulic, the steering was hydraulic and brakes hydraulic. Not just assisted by hydraulics but fly by wire like some aircraft. The brake pedal went to a proportioning valve and not a master etc. When you turned the car off it slowing sank to the ground. Instead of springs and shocks they used hydraulic cylinders to hold the car up and the shocks were gas filled spheres on them. The steering wheel just went to valves also. There was a big red light on the dash and if it went on you had seconds to pull over before you lost brakes, steering and suspension. I had a low mileage one and it ran abotu $5k a year to keep running. Was fun to drive with the quad overhead cam Mas engine. And it came with an 8-track. The Maserati Merak had the same drive train and dash.
Here is a link to one of those Akai "invert-a-matics" like what I had.
Dave
That is an amazing set-up... thanks for linking
To bad it didn't sound as good as it looked. Made a great pink noise generator though...
Dave
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