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At least it is Part 15 compliant. At first view I thought it might have been a 25hz encoder but I don't see any pass through. Then I thought it might be a bulk eraser but as said above the fuse was too small. If it is a matter of dating the device it was after 3M bought ITC (or vice versa) so that makes it at least late eighties or early nineties.
pretty sure it's a later model cart tape eraser from ITC, it's in the same town as me, so I might run over there and check it out...
I suspect they used a standard case for those, and since the ScotchCart series didn't have metal in them, a lighter device probably worked well. If sou seriously want to buy it, ask them if it vibrates/makes noise when they push the button.. It should be slightly heavy, and if you put a paper clip on it, you'll know in an instant.
pretty sure it's a later model cart tape eraser from ITC, it's in the same town as me, so I might run over there and check it out...
I suspect they used a standard case for those, and since the ScotchCart series didn't have metal in them, a lighter device probably worked well. If sou seriously want to buy it, ask them if it vibrates/makes noise when they push the button.. It should be slightly heavy, and if you put a paper clip on it, you'll know in an instant.
You might find dust in the wind. They're out of business since early 90s ;D. I'm not interested in purchasing it. I alreday have a 220v TEAC and a 120v Audiolab, wich I don't use. A 1000w stepdown converter isnt cheap...
With only one push button on the front panel, I doubt that it's a Digital Cart Machine.
Too bad that there is no information about this product on the internet. Perhaps it was something which was custom-made. One-of-a-kind.
With only one push button on the front panel, I doubt that it's a Digital Cart Machine.
Too bad that there is no information about this product on the internet. Perhaps it was something which was custom-made. One-of-a-kind.
"Right at the end of the cart machine era, ITC was trying to make the shift over to digital audio and automation. I saw their contraption at the NAB. It was a strange beast, and not very well accepted. As I recall it used a bunch of those little modules all run by a central controller."
With only one push button on the front panel, I doubt that it's a Digital Cart Machine.
Too bad that there is no information about this product on the internet. Perhaps it was something which was custom-made. One-of-a-kind.
"Right at the end of the cart machine era, ITC was trying to make the shift over to digital audio and automation. I saw their contraption at the NAB. It was a strange beast, and not very well accepted. As I recall it used a bunch of those little modules all run by a central controller."
I remember seeing the demo of the ITC Digital System. It was a but clunky and horribly overpriced. I think the little box is a control head for the system- similar to the "fish finders" that the Radio-Systems-Orban Airtime system used. When Orban dumped it's hard drive system to Enco, the fish finder was renamed the "brick" and continued to be sold as an Enco add-on
device.
Other early systems also used some funky hardware- Audisk had the "dreamer" keyboard. This contraption went in line with the keyboard and was an early hot key device.
For those who weren't blessed to see one in action, the Audisk was a marvel. Once set up properly, the thing just ran
and ran. When it died, look out- all the boards were proprietary. I understand there is still one running up in Michigan...
Tim Valley installed the first one in Indiana at a station I worked at in Evansville. It had an amazingly large hard drive for 1987. May have been a couple 120 meg hard drives. Worked well except for the closures. We had closures running to receivers at the transmitter site some 500 feet on the hill away from the studio. Static electricity. One spot that said stop in and say hello repeated in such a way you heard : say hell until after 20 minutes a listener called. The silent sense never triggered because audio was playing.
They fixed the static with extra caps across the triggers. Station wouldn't move the rf cable to the receiver near the automation.
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