1970s Panasonic Take 'n Tape portable cassette recorder
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2021
- The cassette counterpart to Panasonic's "Dynamite" 8-track player: the Take 'n Tape portable cassette recorder, model RQ-711S, circa 1973-1975. Yes, people were already using "tape" as a verb back then!
I think this model was a key prop in a dramatic ending to a Hawaii Five-O episode:
It looks pretty modern actually I wouldn’t guess it’s from the 70s
I live in Indonesia and seeing that you have one of those tapes is hilarious, you can still find a ton of them bootleg tapes at flea markets and 2nd hand shops. The titles are usually "Walkman Special Action" or "Best Hits" with a random collection of songs and they usually go for 5 cents a pop. And yeah nobody cared about copyright in those days :)
I have always liked Panasonic since they seemed to deliver well made stuff that didn't fall apart very soon. Wonder if the same rings true (or even truer) for their old stuff...
I had one of those back in the day and wore it out. I did a homework project that was due at end of school year (12 years old). I played a reporter and interviewed 6 Detroit Cass Corridor prostitutes with candid snapshots from a Polaroid. You should have seen the look on the teachers face when I presented it. I got an A+ but my parents were infuriated with me. Those woman were my friends and actually have fond memories of them. They always looked out for me and were kind. They never solicited me.Those were tumultuous times for a young white boy who didn't see color living on the east side of Detroit.
The take away from this is that Cassette is an under rated band.
J.J. Walker now does social security commercials.
I got a Take & Tape player for my birthday in 1974. It eventually wore out. I know they made them until at least 1980 because I remember buying one that year.
Even though this is a low price "youth market" recorder, I gar-un-teee It's 300% better than even the "best" portable cassette players made now!
I have hundreds of those 80s bootleg tapes from Bali. I was there in june 1988 when they shutdown all the tape shops after they signed a copyright agreement with western countries. One day a tape shop the next day they were selling food.
That Cassette song is a bop. Will have to look them up on Spotify.
That’s a pretty nice player, the design holds up well and it sounds pretty good!
I gave one of these to my nephew, way back in 1974(when he was 10) as a present for Xmas. But in Australia it was not marketed as "Take 'n Tape", in fact it was just sold without any hype at all, as far as I recall.
Oh man that advertisement at the end was the chefs kiss to a wonderfully informative video. I've been watching the classic Hawaii Five-O and I looked up this recorder after finishing the episode that it was featured in.
Naming your band "Cassette" is kind of like naming your video game "Download" -- there was one on the PC Engine. It will guarantee that it will be nigh-impossible to find the thing over the web.
that's like, the best-looking cassette recorder i have ever seen
I feel like this device was a huge influence on the design and construction of the Fisher Price tape recorder which debuted not too long after this was discontinued. It even used 4 C batteries.
You made note of the amount of plastic in the tape transport chassis when showing the insides. This was a low-cost unit even when new. But it still sounded very good, and I really couldn't detect any wow or flutter to speak of. That heavy die-cast capstan flywheel seems to be the key. It might be entertaining to see the W&F of this little player compared to some recently made tape decks and players.
At first when I saw the video at the start I thought it was a cheap plastic cassette player, ion,etc. But I was fooled when you said that it was from the 70s. Another great video. Keep up the great work!
I had one of those Panasonic Take n Tape machines; got it in ‘73, in Blue. It was my first cassette player/recorder which replaced a mini reel to reel (like in Mission Impossible) machine. I used it to play and record, and put a lot of mileage on it. The case may have been plastic, but the mechanism inside still had a decent build quality.