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tape machine

NOUN
video cassette recorder
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They also retrieved Paul’s Ampex 5258 Sel-Sync multitrack tape machine, familiarly known as the Octopus, which sits alongside the console, and was the first-ever eight-track.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2025

In 1957, he produced her first album, “Negro Folk Songs and Tunes,” recorded on a portable tape machine at her house; it introduced “Freight Train” to the world.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2022

I didn’t realize I was making an album and there was something about the tape machine that kept me honest,” Urie says.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 15, 2022

The band upped the dread on their second album, D.O.A, but discovered a more accessible side on 1979's 20 Jazz Funk Greats, recorded on a tape machine they had borrowed from Paul McCartney.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2020

Ellsberg, feeling absurdly out of place, hurried behind with his date’s heavy tape machine.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin




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