Find out the value of a Vinyl Record, CD, or Cassette, etc. Search within our Price Guide of Sold Auctions
RCA tape cartridge: RCA Sound Tape Cartridge Case with Recording Tapes! Rare!
87.67 USD
100.00 USD
16 Jan 2019
15 Jan 2019
Best Offer
720
2829
United States
Very Good
RCA
Is this information accurate?
Is this Item a Fake or Counterfeit?
Selling my entire RCA Sound Tape Cartridge Collection. Here's a rare case from the collection. Includes 10 Scotch brand Recording tape cartridges. All have been recorded on but are in excellent working condition.
Thanks for looking!
RCA introduced a new cartridge recorder in 1958, using 1/8 inch magnetic tape at 3 3/4 ips (the same as the later 8-Track) and requiring a separate player/recorder. The stereophonic tapes -- which bore a striking resemblance to modern cassettes, but three times larger -- held two one-hour stereo programs, and a 1958 catalog of tapes (mostly fictitious) was released. By August 1959, player/recorder units were finally being shipped to distributors, but only 16 recordings were available. RCA had introduced portable units and playback-only units by 1961, and established a tape club to distribute the cartridges, mostly classical and light jazz instrumentals. Sears-Roebuck had also considered marketing a radio-phonograph-cartridge console which never was produced. In late 1961, what little market RCA had for stereo cartridges seriously diminished -- but production did continue by a licensee, Bell Sound, until 1964.