Hearing old recordings is always really interesting. Hearing just everyday conversation or business related notes, it's like taking a trip into a casual event in the past.
@almazotorresericdaniel85804 жыл бұрын
SO TRUE!
@OldProVidios4 жыл бұрын
Played with one of these as a kid. Dad brought it home. I got the dog to barking. Then hit review. The playback barking caused the dog to bark more, hit record. All right there on the handle. Created a couple of minutes of dog barking before Mom took it away.
@drewgehringer78136 жыл бұрын
7:39 Telefunken: How many levels of Unnesecary Gendering are you on? The Soap and Shampoo Industry: like, 5 or 6, my dude Telefunken: you are like a little baby, watch this;
@BilisNegra3 жыл бұрын
Love this now classic video! I woke dormant memories of watching it time ago, and I know I'll come back at some point once more, even if it is a couple of years from now.
@scott89197 жыл бұрын
That's Telefunken awesome.
@databits7 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@robertcummings27207 жыл бұрын
WOW i didn't know Cd-Rom Technology came from this what a neat piece of historical Machinery that innovated disk recording technology Thank you so much subbed and added:) gonna watch more of your videos you're voice is easy on the ears to listen to, Do you do podcasts as well ? please let me know thanks
@NuGanjaTron3 жыл бұрын
Had one of the coolest logos ever (6:56); worthy of a t-shirt! Too bad they're history... :^(
@DG-pg8bp3 жыл бұрын
I have 2 of these machines from my dads medical practice from the 50- 80s. I havent turned them on yet or listened to any of the discs. Thanks for showing this video.
@bcbudrecords Жыл бұрын
I bought one of these today in amazing condition and was happy to find your video and hear it in action, also cool that you showed us what a floppy disc sounds like ... thank you !
@databits Жыл бұрын
Very cool!
@gabotron949 ай бұрын
Love how it looks like an oversized, dieselpunk, early-90s personal CD player
@andycristea7 жыл бұрын
Awesome device! Thanks for sharing!
@vaxel76 жыл бұрын
That Telefunken machine looks quite beautiful, I really like the design!
@NuGanjaTron3 жыл бұрын
And what an iconic logo! (6:56)
@jeylful7 жыл бұрын
I love how it looks! Art deco
@khalid_ba4 жыл бұрын
I never knew about such a device, until I saw it on a rerun of Mission Impossible (Season 1 Episode 11 Zubrovnik's Ghost). Once Briggs pulled the disk out of a sleeve, and inserted it into the device, I immediately thought "naked floppy disk"! Searching on it landed me here. Thanks for doing this video.
@dracoony7 жыл бұрын
I was more curious about how a floppy disc sounds than the actual media for this machine ;) Greetings from Germany!
@databits7 жыл бұрын
Greetings!!
@Fredy51007 жыл бұрын
Great video, as always. Thanks for your time for reviewing these beautiful, old devices and sharing them with us. Especially the bit towards the end, where you put the floppy disk in the machine, that was a fantastic idea to hear digital data being reproduced on an analog machine. Keep up the great work! :)
@databits7 жыл бұрын
Thank you Fromm for your comments.
@GrumpyTim4 жыл бұрын
Great video, I've got a real wreck of one of these - it's had the worst battery leakage I've ever seen in anything. It must have been stored on it's side and everything on the left hand side is in a terrible state - many of the wires have literally dissolved. Luckily the play head, motor and things like that look fine. Assuming I think it's not impossible when I look at it properly, I'll post some videos of the restoration. There were lots of the discs with it - that was the main reason I bought it, and it was very cheap, and it looked like an interesting project!!!
@Mike-en5le Жыл бұрын
Did you finish the restore? I just found one myself.
@GrumpyTim Жыл бұрын
@@Mike-en5le Hi Mike, I still haven't got round to it - too many projects - I got myself a Assmann dictation machine that uses a similar magnetic record and that kind of scratched the itch because the Assmann was more or less working. I'll still hopefully get round to the Telefunken/Olympia machine one day.......
@amrkoptan40416 жыл бұрын
That Floppy Disk bonus is too cool to handle!!!
@JackOfAllTrades20227 жыл бұрын
I always learn something new when looking for recorders of different types. I'm in the process of rebuilding a crystal recording head using a vibrating speaker.... a real challenge, but will be interesting when I get done...my turntable is similar, but without a worm drive, it's works like a clutch...someday you'll have to come to my site to check it out...thanks for an informative video.
@CanDoo3217 жыл бұрын
Love it. I wish I had the space to collect the stuff you show for myself.
@databits7 жыл бұрын
I'm running out of space!!
@CanDoo3217 жыл бұрын
databits well if you need any (cough) temporary storage in North Carolina, let me know, heh.
@CassetteMaster7 жыл бұрын
This is a fascinating and amazing machine! The sound quality is quite good as well. Speaking of weird 1960s dictation formats, I have recently required a GAF "Rols" dictation machine, which is extraordinarily rare.
@databits7 жыл бұрын
Cool! Are you going to make a video about it?
@Bobby_Snoof Жыл бұрын
Very good video. Hello from France.
@databits Жыл бұрын
Hello!
@eflose4 жыл бұрын
Nice Recorder 😊
@Haruki_Aikawa6 жыл бұрын
You sound like the EAS guy! I love it
@jaybrooks10984 жыл бұрын
There was also a school version that was on paper. To make personalized lessons for students that need more help with a lesson. Techmoan found one.
@ZXRulezzz7 жыл бұрын
I was about to ask "what are those 3-yellow-legged capactors", then I realized I haven't seen a transistor in such package in an eternity :)
@databits7 жыл бұрын
Yes, they wanted to crawl off the board!
@wii12453 жыл бұрын
@@databits and take over the world! Bwahahaha!
@mbart5 жыл бұрын
I own one, never tried to operate it so far. With the help of this video, it might be possible.
@staticmunk77777 жыл бұрын
wow sounds like something from one of those old school acid house remixes at a rave party one of the killer mixes hehe
@SammeLagom7 жыл бұрын
Cool vid man! Going trough all your vids. :-p
@pxlfighter54006 жыл бұрын
just wanna say, love the flamey tape lol.
@kevtris7 жыл бұрын
the biggest problem I see is the width of the play head's track relative to the spacing of the grooves. You need a real narrow head to record/play without "running into" adjacent tracks (unless you increase the speed of the screw). A video head off a dead VCR will have a very small width and might work, though you might have to support the sides of the head to prevent it breaking, like epoxying it, then using a file or similar to smooth and shape it to match the head's curve.
@eman594616 жыл бұрын
Interesting Device reminds me of old forgotten tech. and then the tech of today. I have tech videos as well.
@TheKsax7 жыл бұрын
Telefunken is awesome name for any product. Very nice find. I think you should continue working on your own recorder, it would be interesting to see work and maybe you can try to use custom signal modulation for better audio.
@databits7 жыл бұрын
I've had several people suggest the same thing. I may finish it later. I'm behind on my list of videos to make!
@mazinz27 жыл бұрын
You should not have played the 8" diskette, now the Aliens are aware you cracked their master code plan. This device as a whole is awesome
@ahah17856 жыл бұрын
that battery is good stuff enviromentally friendly=)
@keenanfinucan87785 жыл бұрын
On the "auto repair" disc, note how he says "number 1 engine". A quick google search for "clark gas compressor" suggests natural gas distribution equipment. Would make sense to document repairs in an industrial setting.
@CoolDudeClem7 жыл бұрын
That's a weird device, but still pretty cool (I find vintage audio stuff fascinating, I would also collect stuff like that if I could). This reminds of something I saw, it looked like a record player but recorded onto magnetic discs, and it has a small wheel with a spiral groove that you put in the middle of the disc and it guided the arm across. I know you said someone else has done it, but can we see your magnetic disc recorder in action anyway, just to hear how well it works? (or doesn't).
@coondogtheman7 жыл бұрын
Neat unit. I wonder if you could decode the data tones from the floppy disk. Is there a way to connect this to a stereo and also record from line level sources? I imagine music would sound terrible on this unit since it's meant for voice. And when I first saw the thumbnail for this video I thought you got a new car. this thing kind of looks like the front end of a car.
@databits7 жыл бұрын
True! If only it had headlights!
@coondogtheman7 жыл бұрын
databits The battery meter looked like the right headlight.
@rawr519195 жыл бұрын
I suppose decoding would be possible through line-in recording the disk.
@MasticinaAkicta7 жыл бұрын
It was an interresting time, yet in the end we ended up with Tape. mini tape yes, smaller audio tapes running at slower speeds but that was the solution in the end. These machines are fun though, the inventions around that time are pretty awesome. Even if they didn't succeeded.
@georgeprice79227 жыл бұрын
Floppy disc Techno! LOL
@databits7 жыл бұрын
Yeah!!!
@tinovanderzwanphonocave5445 жыл бұрын
there were quite a number of magnetic disc recorders made by brands as assman, timex, recordon, dimafon and many others some were dictation devices some were answering machines and others were toys there are even solid metal discs players were the magnetic layer on the disc is on a non removable aluminium disc very much like a hard disc in a pc some of those were used in talking vending machines disc sizes vary from 14 inches right down to only 4 inches just enough for a '' thank you for using the Disney coin press'' materials also varied like i said there were solid metal discs but also magnetic material on wood, vulcanized rubber, celluloid, paper, plastic and even glass magnetic disc recorders of a classified experimetal type were used in the Nasa space (mercury - apollo) program probably of the solid metal variety of which the hard disc evolved
@BoB4jjjjs6 жыл бұрын
An amazing piece of history and built like a tank, but look at the circuit board, I reckon it was soldered by hand. Odd machine that I have never seen before. By the time I saw them they were a lot smaller dictating machines that you could hold in your hand. Good video and good work restoring it. Is Telefunken still with us, I have not seen anything with that name on it for about 10years. Last thing I bought with that name was a CD/radio cassette player and that was around 10 years ago. Not of the same quality build I have to say and very plastic, but it did work and do what it was supposed to do. Imaging having to lug that thing around just to dictate a letter while on a plane! But I suppose it was still better than scribbling it onto a note book and scoring out the changes and trying to write them in somewhere else or between the lines. You could also show it off to all your fellow passengers, until they caught up. Strange drive system with the rubber wheel/washer type arrangement. Never seen one before, thanks for the look inside and the demo :-)
@NuGanjaTron3 жыл бұрын
Telefunken is sadly history, along with many other German manufacturers (e.g. Grundig, Blaupunkt, Nordmende, SABA, Dual). The name lingers but it's basically just rebadged crap from China now. Loewe appears to be one of the few survivors, tho I suspect they only develop the firmware in their tellies now, not the hardware. :^(
@BoB4jjjjs3 жыл бұрын
@@NuGanjaTron it will be China today and somewhere else tomorrow!
@NuGanjaTron3 жыл бұрын
@@BoB4jjjjs India seems a likely contender...
@BoB4jjjjs3 жыл бұрын
@@NuGanjaTron Yeah, but it might be somewhere in Africa, India already has its sweat shops! But you might be right, we wait to see, but it might take a while or the Chinese demand better conditions!
@garydorking83742 ай бұрын
Me and my uncle/ the family made recordings on this machine in the sixties and I have found the disks. Not sure if they would still have anything on them, but I do remember what some of the recordings we did were. I would love to be able to hear them again if anyone could help with that.
@VideyoJunkei7 жыл бұрын
Did you know that the center hole of a 8" floppy exactly fits on a 45 RPM adapter!! Cool stuff....
@databits7 жыл бұрын
Yes I did! thanks for watching!
@jackkraken38887 жыл бұрын
I wonder if it would be possible to record raw audio onto the floppy and then play it on the Telefunken? Wouldn't that be cool!!!
@VintageElectronicsGeek7 жыл бұрын
Great video as always! That "screw" you kept referencing is actually a "worm gear". :) Regards ~ Jack, VEG
@Ts64517 жыл бұрын
Well, as it translates rotation into linear movement, it would generally be termed a "leadscrew", so screw is not really wrong in this application. The term "worm gear" refers to the gear cut to interface with the worm in a worm drive, worm gears are used to pick off rotation, not linear movement.
@analynakat Жыл бұрын
I have one of these how do I find out what they’re worth?
@aquaevitae4 жыл бұрын
WOW. That floppy disc sounds little like an old school acid techno-house from early 90's.🤪🎶 Would be nice to know, could this machine really store computer data, and then loaded back to computer?🧐
@nothere73004 жыл бұрын
I have one of these Telefunken recording machines that I tried to fix. I have some discs I would love to hear but the repair has defeated me so far!
@BertGrink7 жыл бұрын
+databits That last bit with the floppy diskette, when you let go of the position indicator and let it do its own thing, and it just went to the end, that is the so-called skating effect; it was a very real problem on grammophone turntables as well, and many ingenious methods were invented to overcome it. - But you probably knew that as well. Greetings from Denmark.
@databits7 жыл бұрын
Greetings!
@kakurerud75167 жыл бұрын
have you tried adding the grooves to one of those floppies with your cutter for the telefunken to guide on yet?
@databits7 жыл бұрын
I did! The grooves were too thin for the massive stylus head in this machine to follow.
7 жыл бұрын
I thought you were actually going to record using your invention, got a bit disappointed :(
@databits7 жыл бұрын
I'm so sorry Andre, please forgive me!
@ksrele7 жыл бұрын
Yes, please test your recorder :)
@michaeldickens11017 жыл бұрын
Yeah, test it, I'm interested to see how it turns out
@ps3master727 жыл бұрын
yeah, test it, that would be an awesome video
@therestorationofdrwho18653 жыл бұрын
databits please test it.
@Lagib287 жыл бұрын
I think you could use the floppy data sound as theme music. It had a kind of strange rhythm near the end, and as a bonus , no copyright strikes would happen!
@databits7 жыл бұрын
Lagib28 I like your thinking!!
@afloyd49767 жыл бұрын
Always wanted to hear what a computer floppy disk sounded like!
@databits7 жыл бұрын
Interesting isn't it?
@ferranmelero77276 жыл бұрын
databits hi you should try to play a cd on a turntable
@nothere73004 жыл бұрын
Anyone in the UK have a working Telefunken machine. I have a broken one but would love to hear if any of the discs I have are recorded on.
@doppie12007 жыл бұрын
how about cutting a groove into those 8 inch floppy discs so you can actually use it on the Telefunken? Maybe they are to thin. That would be a fun experiment.
@databits7 жыл бұрын
Great suggestion. I tried it and the floppy discs are just too thin.
@ObiTrev5 жыл бұрын
Its certainly cool, but I wonder how practical it was. For the Auto-Repair,you would have to listen to the whole disk (or however long the recording is) to get the full work history. With a paper file system, it would far more efficient. Unless you were an executive with a secretary to make paper copies, I never fully understood the personal practicality of dictation machines.
@DoRC7 жыл бұрын
cool! that definitely wasnt automotive repair he was talking about. possibly large marine or industrial.
@WAQWBrentwood7 жыл бұрын
Do R/C! It sounds like the repairs were FOR an auto repair shop. The rebuilds mentioned were for a large air compressor.(or 2).
@davidlogansr80076 жыл бұрын
Aircraft engine tebuild
@BCZF7 жыл бұрын
That looks just like a Telefunken U47 - With Leather.... This is the Central Scrutinizer
@therestorationofdrwho18653 жыл бұрын
So, for you it was an original idea, and then you discovered it had already been done by the time you were making your own?
@cesarcastillo61036 жыл бұрын
looks modern
@GusFernCa2 ай бұрын
You can actually hear the floppy disk format in the audio. For each disk sector (typically 128 bytes each for an 8" floppy) you hesr a blip....shhhhhhhhh...silence. the blip is the sector header which includes the track and sector numbers. The shhhhhhh is the data and the silense is the gap between sectors. The areas of the disk where you hear a tone are most likely empty sectors with all zeroes.
@girldj-7196 Жыл бұрын
Does include discs
@Kauajiri7 жыл бұрын
Would love to see some music played back on this machine
@databits7 жыл бұрын
Miles, it would be awful. The speed of the platter is so unstable. You could purchase mine and record all the music you wanted, however!
@stevenzagony61875 жыл бұрын
Try recording music to and from it directly in and out line level
@johnny-becker7 жыл бұрын
Can you imagine if that same guy who recorded the auto-repair recording was watching your video today? The car he was working on was a 1970, or at least I think that is what he said so it could be 35 years since this recording was made. ||| That power supply really takes you back. I love how it said "Made in Western Germany" rather than "Made in Germany". That tells me that the Telefunken Co. did not support communism as East Germany was under communist rule at that time.
@therestorationofdrwho18654 жыл бұрын
Wait where's the auto repair recording??
@ellisgl7 жыл бұрын
Could you imagine the amount of data you could store on an 8" floppy if the if the tecnology used for the LS-240 Superdisk was used? Think if they made 12" laser disks with Bluray tech...
@davidellis40317 жыл бұрын
In an alternative universe where the internet wasn't created, we're all mail-ordering Encarta 2017 on 12-inch 1TB Blu-ray!
@tinovanderzwanphonocave5445 жыл бұрын
i have one in the collection although it is still more of a parts machine but i'm sure another one will pop up some day and then i have a nice parts source the machine came with a whopping 900 discs i'm still wondering why... and as the chaotic person and hoarder that i am i i forgot where exactly they are!
@tinovanderzwanphonocave5445 жыл бұрын
ps, mine hasn't got the battery since it was used in a car running of the cars battery (would that be a 6 volt battery?)
@Gunzee4 жыл бұрын
7:20 that address is such a beautiful building, it is so stout it held strong during 9/11. Although it was badly damaged. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/90_West_Street It's a little sad when you find your ideas already been done, then again this is a take on the compact cassette type, which there are many variations off.
@mattpelzek38097 жыл бұрын
Why would such a weird device be built anyway? Magnetic tape has longer playtime.
@robertgaines-tulsa7 жыл бұрын
Random access.
@johntammaro6 жыл бұрын
I believe I was able to translate some the instructions in pink for women from the native German. I believe it said "seek assistance from man if unable to operate". Haha. PS this is a joke. Haha funny.
@NuGanjaTron3 жыл бұрын
Flat joke considering the instructions were obviously in plain English... ;^)
@Fader20037 жыл бұрын
all that gold on that board though...
@databits7 жыл бұрын
The gold is so pretty..
@Spacekriek7 жыл бұрын
...Ding... your record is completed now. Please remove it from the machine. :p
@stevethepocket6 жыл бұрын
This thing made your voice sound like the marines from "Half-Life".
@databits6 жыл бұрын
Is that a good thing?
@janvisser84524 жыл бұрын
Like in 'you' it is Telefou-nken. And why did you ommit the 'd' in Nor-d-mende we ask ourselves in w-Europe. But we like your channel.
@MsJinkerson4 жыл бұрын
It's strange to hear a voice from the past
@allrock12384 жыл бұрын
Take a look at how a Tony Chatbot works in reflection ,,
@pgtmr27135 жыл бұрын
What if instead of the tape head you used, you use a hard drive arm with a much smaller head.
@drrobotnikmeanbeanma4 жыл бұрын
How good is the quality if you record real songs ???
@dhpbear27 жыл бұрын
Ironic that the auto repair guy sounds likes he's READING the text he is dictating! This must have been before there were fax machines! :)
@Zagroseckt6 жыл бұрын
They used magnetic insted of cutting so you could erase it and reuse it silly willy :)
@girldj-7196 Жыл бұрын
Found one brand new in a dumpster but has no record playing machine with it..anyone interested in it?
@viveksoley6 жыл бұрын
I think you missed giving the length of time it could record on that disc. Never heard of such a machine earlier. This format could have come up after the mechanical groove type vinyl records and reel type magnetic tapes. Other formats had the opposite. They had grooves on a reel. Anyway interesting to learn about the machine..
@stevethepocket6 жыл бұрын
"Other formats had the opposite. They had grooves on a reel." Acquainted with the Tefifon, I take it?
@coolizmc7 жыл бұрын
made in West Germany wow thats old
@Renatodonadio7 жыл бұрын
I don't think that inspired CD-ROM and floppy drives that much (the first CDs were tray-loaded and obviously the floppies had the sleeve around) what was directly inspired by that was the slot loaded record player that played 45 rpm records and was the primary source for children songs and story telling records for the children of the 70's
@Renatodonadio7 жыл бұрын
On the other hand that also inspired the RCA video disc player, it was te same exact thing only the disc was larger, was encased in the plastic sleeve and obviously there was also video encoded in it
@databits7 жыл бұрын
This machine also inspired me to greatness. :D
@srfrg97076 жыл бұрын
Haaaa. Men dictating and women typing down. That was the good old times! I regret you didn't try to capture the audio from the headphones connector. The integrated loudspeaked is obviously not good enough to evaluate the recording quality.
@databits6 жыл бұрын
Trust me, the recording quality is horrible. Nothing to evaluate.
@SPINNINGMYWHEELS7776 жыл бұрын
You should have done your homework. They tried everything to record onto different formats way before we were born.
@ajspice7 жыл бұрын
The traditional blue for boys pink for girls thing wasn't popular until the 1980's. Here it's just coincidence.
@pjbth7 жыл бұрын
Andrew Spice it actually goes back to the 40s
@databits7 жыл бұрын
I seriously doubt it was coincidence.
@martinda74467 жыл бұрын
Really was obsolete even before it was introduced, poor quality, limited play time, cumbersome and complex, non portable in play. This is why there is only one. Don't think I don't love it, I do, but it was fairly useless, as Philips had just invented the compact cassette.
@m.k.81587 жыл бұрын
This was NOT the only one...similar units were produced in the 50's for the consumer market, at least in the USA.
@Ungeboren19886 жыл бұрын
This model is from 1962 the cassete was first introduced 1963 in Europe and 1964 in the US. And similiar models were build already in the 50s.
@markmarkofkane81676 жыл бұрын
Couldn't you erase and rerecord? If so, that's why it's not a record. If not, yeah, makes no sense.
@SilasPiacenti6 жыл бұрын
What's wrong with blue for men and pink for women? Geez...
@databits6 жыл бұрын
Nothing?
@NuGanjaTron3 жыл бұрын
It's un-PC, and apparently that's considered a serious enuff crime these days to send you to a Gulag. Geez indeed... :^\