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In Reply to: RE: First cassettes posted by Jcard on August 07, 2009 at 18:22:41
Pegging my age also - My first car cassette deck went into a '49 Packard Custom I owned around '72. It was 6 volt pos ground. I ended up mounting it on a quick release slide they used to sell back then. I had to insulate it by mounting it to wood and the wood to the under dash supports. Also had to use a 6 to 12 volt converter. I also had to cut the ground off the coax going to the antenna. Worked great until someone smashed the vent window and stole it the one time I forgot to pull it out and put it in the trunk like I usually did.
I went through a series of stereo crappy, noisey sounding stereo home cassette decks in the '60s. Had an Ampex, a POS Panasonic (said SEARS on it)and an Akai that physically flipped the tape over for you. I even took the Panasonic's transport and hooked the heads to an old KnightKit record/play reel to reel tube preamp for a while.
Dave
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