lol

and I had nothing to do with it.
no, I don't know whether that's regret or put-on superiority you hear.
great read - even if the wizard did have to help me on the difficult parts.......

From the book, The Earl Ayn Rand - dates of works already written before Ideal, written as a novelette 1934, revised as stage play probably 1935 or 36:

The Husband I Bought - c1926
The Night King - c1926
Good Copy - c1927
Escort - c1929
Her Second Career - c1929
Red Pawn - c1931-32
We the Living - 1930-33 (seeking publisher while writing Ideal)
Night of January 16th (seeking producer while writing Ideal)

But it was well before the mature novels were published.

My all time favorite was the MAXELL Metal Vertex 90...each one actually has a unique serial number.

Used on my TASCAM 122 MKIII, the results were astonishing! My final blank Vertex tape was eaten by the TASCAM, and I lost about the first 12 feet...one of these days I will open the case, and salvage this wonderful tape.

I have quite a few of the XLII tapes that have been recorded on, and if you can't get them anymore, maybe you would just tape over them....

I ran maxell XLII tapes for years and years, with the
480 as the player and the 100 as the recorder,
making tapes which sounded better than the CDs.
[are you aware of the "concert hall" effect which a
tape imparts to music -- a very slight effect, but it is
enough to smooth out the graininess of a CD a
bit ... plus, I cheated on dolby. I recorded with
dolby b engaged, for the master, and then messed
with the tape type and eq (100msec), leaving the
multiplexer and dolby off when making copies ...
found this combo by ear, and it delivered copies
with significant brilliance, and full bass depth.
hundreds of copies. dozens of "masters".

if I attempt to adopt another tape, I will need to
practice with it to find the combination which
works. but I have done this before.....!

such fun!!! -- j

I think a certain someone thinks I'm dinging his comments (which I'm not, at least not in the last week or two) so I'm getting retaliated against. Whatever. I don't live my life or gauge my worth by the gulch's point system, so ding a way, dingalinger. :)

I figured that you'd be 'cool' about it!

By the way...someone just 'dinged' you, for some unknown reason...I'll put you back!

This isn't all I have, but were in the first place I thought to look.

Still sealed:
TDK MA 110
SONY SR 90
MAXELL MX-S 100
MAXELL MX 60
TDK SA 60
SONY HF 60

I'll keep looking for the rest!

This post is already taken over...do what ya want. I can't understand a word being said in here. Much like the time talk on that other post. the sun comes up the sun goes down..that takes TIME.

Let me locate them, and I will let you know here (if LS doesn't mind)!

handsome deck! looks like the heart of my BX100s
with a lot of extra bells and whistles!!! -- j

p.s. how much for the tapes? what brand?

That's my guess ... although I find left-handed persons to be greatly logical and artistic.

My Nakamichi is the 600, and it was still working when I put it in the closet. There is little chance that the rubber parts are still good....

Thanks for the tip on the Tascam fixer!

So this was written as her philosophy was taking shape. Looking forward to seeing it. Great work John.

also, Rocky, I have a friend here in tennessee who
can fix tascams. he is good. Russell at dB
electronics, 865-588-9532. in case you're in the
market for a fixer. -- j

I just might be your huckleberry, sir! my stash of
new maxells is dwindling, seriously! I have a teac
transcriber here (AD-RW900) which may allow me
to copy my cassette "masters" onto CDs,, one side
at a time. some are priceless -- dance and wedding
masters, Christmas masters -- tapes which have
been copied a hundred times, still pristine. comes
from very frequent demagnetizing and cleaning!!! -- j

p.s. I will be playing the tapes into the teac with a
nak 480. best player in the house!

Teri, I have just looked through hundreds of online
photos of Rand, and have yet to see one where
she was signing a book or holding a pen, but she
wore her watch on her left arm, and her handwriting
sure looks like a right-hander's. betcha she was
right-handed! -- j

Wow...what has happened to my post... This might be the biggest gulch post hijacking to date.

this is feasible -- if you can make a tiny tracking
arm traveling along the radius of the LP, like the
laser tracker follows the pits in the CD. twin lasers
would be needed to to do stereo. I would love to
take part in such an endeavor!!! -- j

p.s. does 50 years of dj "service" count?

let's see ... pi times diameter times 33.3/min =
1229 inches/minute, divided by 60 = 20.48 inches
per second, a bit greater than 15 inches/second for
really fast tape speed ... and there are only a few
transformers to mask the high frequency transitions
and violins and such ... sampling without borders!!! -- j

Amen, brother!

Sadly, all three of my Tascams are malfunctioning, except for one that will playback only. I use this one for transferring my tapes to digital.

I have a decent stack of unopened metal cassette tapes if you have any use for them.

you are kidding, right?! --j

I have retired all of my equipment that 'glows' in the dark...but I still have an awesome reel -to-reel, and several studio quality Tascam cassette units, and one Nakamichi model that was the first cassette recorder ever used to tape a live performance for vinyl release (by Fleetwood Mac).

Progress isn't always as advertised....

okay -- "The Early Ayn Rand" includes works from
the '20s forward, here cited in a review on amazon:
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1920s works
(1) The Husband I Bought - first person with a protagonist who is a woman in love
(2) The Night King - first person with a protagonist who is a male thief
(3) Good Copy - action and romance
(4) Escort - very short
(5) Her Second Career - about the difficulty of succeeding in Hollywood
1930s works
(6) Red Pawn - getting more philosophical now; about the stupidity of self-sacrifice
(7) We the Living (deleted sections) - not so great
(8) Ideal - written as a play; excellent, philosophically
(9) Think Twice - written as a play; excellent, philosophically
(10) Fountainhead (deleted sections) - excellent; Roark's old girlfriend Vesta Dunning and their opposing philosophies
1940s work
(11) The Simplest Thing in the World - common human trait of striving to put other people down
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-- j