24-track R2R with 24 meters weighing 280kg…?

[TheFlash]

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2034949809998183/

 

[Lawrence001]

Now that is something. Do they still make the pro tapes required?

 

[It Cost How Much!?!]

That is a moneypit if ever I have seen one, as is most R2R.

 

[rabski]

Anything that includes 'could be a simple fix' in the description is about the biggest red flag known to mankind. In this case, it's better replaced by 'almost certainly near impossible to fix, if not completely impossible'.

 

[Tony_J]

It it wiv a ammer

 

[johncu]

I can’t believe it weighs 280kg, would need to be made of cast iron!

 

[johncu]

It it wiv a ammer

And if that doesn’t work, it it wiv a bigga ammer

 

[wizmax]

Now that is something. Do they still make the pro tapes required?

Yes.

 

[TheFlash]

I can’t believe it weighs 280kg, would need to be made of cast iron!

That’s what I thought. Surely an exaggeration 

 

[jatinder]

Interestingly, in the 90's I worked with a Sony 32-track studio recorder - which recorded onto tapes the size of a small suitcase. The machine itself weighed over a 100KG.

It could record 32 analogue tracks or 32 digital tracks - we used the digital mode to store data as this machine was the fastest recorder on the planet at the time - no disk could keep up with it.

--Jatinder