Thanks to the Proquest Historic Newspaper Database, I found an ad in the Nov. 13, 1949 NY Times for the Soundmirror Tape Recorder selling for $199.50 with microphone that "records for 1/2 hour." It was being sold by G. Schirmer stores in NYC and Brooklyn. Claude Claude B. Zachary University Archivist and Manuscripts Librarian University of Southern California Doheny Memorial Library 220 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 (213) 740-2587 >