EIKI model 3279A school cassette tape recorder

[sphudson]

Great video. Do you know if the Sony TC-62 is AC biased? Thanks.

[nargarothfreak]

its to bad that the genaration of this time do not know what a cassette is

ore a VHS that is a shame

that was that best thing ever:P

Cheers!

Sorry for my englisch

[nwmnmelvyn]

@nargarothfreak Hi Is this for sale and what are you asking for it? Does it have its own Mains adapator as well?

Mel Newman -- nwmnmelvyn@aol.com

[Ragrog105]

Eiki is better known for 16mm movie projectors. Two models come to mind, I worked on both. The STOH and the RTO. They are a Japanese company. Eiki tried tried to capture the American market away from Bell & Howell's 16mm movie projectors. There were issues with getting needed Eiki replacement parts because they were shipped from Japan.

That might be the reason Eiki's cassette recorder reminded you of the Bell & Howell.

[cliftdean]

I believe "Eiki" is a transliteration of the Japanese word for "projector". As I'm sure you know, Eiki is more well-known for making 16mm projectors. I believe their philosophy was the build the most reliable and quiet projectors by using as few moving parts as possible.

[Trance88]

My high school had a bunch of that exact machine. Excelent quality!

[prokid2000]

Nice machine has a classic late 80's/ early 90's look

[28019ab]

Nice machine, but believe me if you use it in the classroom you need cue and review on the wind controls. I have a philips D6410 I used in teaching, that is a very similar deck. As well as cue/review It has separate bass and treble controls, AC bias, and also a pitch control (varispeed). someone has made a vid on youtube, search it if interested

[mig189189189]

You found a «war machine» made to last. In late 1985, I had a tape recorder similar to that one and used it to load those Spectrum games from Microsoft in my personal computer «Timex-TC 2048K» . Good old times!

[coondogtheman1234]

My school had a machine like this and when in study hall I used it to listen to my CD player via a cassette adaptor and id record random stuff on it. it was a Bell & Howell unit. Unsure of the model numbers. but it looks like this one.

[eskiewolf76]

Nice! My old Califone model 5270 also came from a school. Paid 8 bucks at Goodwill! Great deal!

Great vid as well!

[m134mr]

casettemaseter, your on lucky guy, that machine sounds and records awsome! great presentation and video!

[spatsbear2]

Awesome. When I first saw this, I was about to say it is nearly identical to a Bell and Howell. Buttons, text, and layout nearly identical. The quality is there...

[CoolDudeClem]

seeing a "school" cassette recorder with loads of connectors on it like that brings back memories. In our school we had these coomber casette recorders, sort of triangular in shape, like that little realistic cassette strereo cassette deck clydesight has, but about twice the size, and hey too had loads of connectors and built in speaker too, if i ever find one on aBay I'll get one.

[wooferfreak]

lol aBay

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Neat recorder. Interesting having the jacks on top of the machine. Very handy. Really sound good too.

[AG3304]

That's a lovely machine you have there.All those headphone sockets make me think it was once used by the school to teach foreign languages,in what we called a language lab,when l was a schoolkid.

[umajunkcollector]

DANGER

RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK!

DO NOT OPEN!

So how ya supposed to put a cassette into it if you cannot open it?

[DrCassette]

That's a nice cassette recorder!

[singinglawnchair]

Wow, I remember this EXACT machine from elementary school... some kid in 4th grade ended up breaking it by putting Kleenex into the machine and pressing fast forward. =/

I'm gonna have to try and find one of these machines now.

[itscool1968]

i own one mint in the BOX:)

[zombiehellmonkey]

wow, this machine rocks! I love that it has sockets on top.

I think that you can use it to save computer data on cassette.

[SlimeTron5000]

I am talking about 220 - 240 volts, 50 hertz.

The song is "Solar Boat" peformed by Ray Manzarek, the former keyboardist for The Doors.

[Lachlant1984]

Disregard my question about auto stop. Are you using a different camera to your Sony HandiCam? I don't hear the sound of the tape drive running, but what I can hear is a high pitched whistle in my left earphone, unless of course that noise it just caused by my sound card drivers being stupid.

[CassetteMaster]

I used the same camera, but with no tape. I had it hooked directly to the computer and recorded right to it. The high pitched sound was probably that of the memory stick card in its reader-it makes that sound.

[Lachlant1984]

Does the unit have cue and review? Does it have full auto stop?

[SlimeTron5000]

The machine can run on batteries! Now, I do not have to worry about incompatible mains frequency and hertz cycles!

[CassetteMaster]

All you'd need to do with this one is get the right voltage. Hertz being 50 or 60 does not matter with this machine.

[SlimeTron5000]

But there are side effects.

[exodia333]

nice bro the audio quality looks to be back to normal

that recorder has a lot of headphone jacks

[Vinylrecordsneverdie]

Very neat machine!

[wilkes85]

Cool unit! it looks older than 1994 though. It has an '80s look to it.

[numanumaaddict]

holy shit! january 1994! that's the exact same month and year i was born! me and that tape recorder are the exact same age! we're both 15 years old, how about that!

[wilkes85]

yea thats cool how things like that work out.

We have a 27" Sears console TV in the living room that was made in Nov. 1985; the same year and month as I was born!

[Vinylrecordsneverdie]

No way! I have a Sears 19" TV made that same month and year, but never got around to make a vid yet.

[wilkes85]

WHOA! Now that's almost creepy lol

But they are excellent sets. Is yours made by Sanyo?

[Vinylrecordsneverdie]

Yep!

My one friend also used to have a have Sears console TV to with the same exact date too. They must've been really popular during that date.

[Vinylrecordsneverdie]

The my friend had had a 5" speaker and a digital display. Does the speaker have an alnico magnet like in older set? I noticed that with Sears TVs.

[CassetteMaster]

I have a black and white video monitor from the month and year of my birth.

[numanumaaddict]

damn! that must be ure luky video monitor or some shit like that

[BrianWilliamGreen]

wow i want that one bad.