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----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Kendall" <[log in to unmask]> >I just hod-rodded one of those Fostex 8 track things - surprisingly good! > "8-track" tapes used 1/4" tape, but arranged in an "endless-loop" format; they actually, being stereo, used all eight tracks (.25"/8) on the tape. Metal (IIRC) portions at either end of the cartridge signaled the player to play the next set of tracks...this would continue (as I discovered one drunken night...?!) for as long as the player was operative...?! I would guess that the tape, if removed from its cartridge, c/would be played on an r2r machine, providing it was capable of playing 8 separate tracks on a .25" tape (standard r2r "stereo" on a back & forth format...?!) Steven C. Barr