If we don't care about our history,
a lot of knowledge would be left forever.
I did research about a year, to rebuild the real history of the taperecorder, starting in Germany 1932. (You need to speak or at least understand some German.) Many rumors and stories needed to be compared (or verified) with other infomations to come closer to the truth, away from legends and dreams.
If you like to read some (really very long) German text or use an automatic online translator, you may click onto the large Tape Story here. But please don't be angry, the story is really large, more than 3 printed meters.
So evaluating the history of magnetic recording, I did start from the near end (the modern data recorders) to the far end (the legacy sound recorders) back to the middle of both (the video tape recorders).
You will find a large gallery of German and European tape recorders, completed with most of the data (cartridge) recorders and now starting to add the broadcast TV recorders and all related broadcast technology here on these pages.
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- We do NOT care about the media, the tv-programs, the tv-films and other tv-material like tv-news and tv-events like the american tv-museum.
- We do care about the "making of" of shows or the news or outdoor reports or the worlds championchips or olympics.
- We do care about the technics behind the pictures. We are collecting little funny stories inside the broadcast organisations, the history of tv development, the many decisions to change something growing too old and more . . .
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Coming to the end, we write all text on these pages in upper class German language. We like to make it a pleasure, to read these pages.
And therefore we use a lot of funny native German sayings and idioms and comparisons, to make the long text readable.
So please don't be sad, if your translator is not a "perfect German speaking computer". The internet online translators are stupid computers. So be happy, what is "coming out" (if something is coming out) and smile.
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