Magnetic Belt Recorder
Magnetic Belt Recorder
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- Description (Brief)
- This Executary dictation machine was designed to allow people to record letters and other information for later transcription. Designs for dictating machines date back to Edison’s cylinder phonograph, and magnetic recorders were also adapted for this application as they became available. IBM introduced the Execuary in 1960 and used a magnetic belt as recording medium. Less likely to break than a thin tape, the belt could be folded and mailed to correspondents with similar machines. The unit could record two tracks, one for the dictation content and a parallel track for instructions to the transcriber.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- recording device
- dictating machine
- date made
- ca 1964
- maker
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Physical Description
- steel (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 13 cm x 42 cm x 33 cm; 5 1/8 in x 16 17/32 in x 13 in
- ID Number
- 1999.3029.01
- nonaccession number
- 1999.3029
- catalog number
- 1999.3029.01
- Credit Line
- from Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church, thru Shirley Satterfield
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Electricity
- Magnetic Recording
- Communications
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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