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Originally Posted by BenG
Not completely true. Consumer wire recorders were around before magnetic tape. I was listening to an old jazz musician on NPR and he was telling about making wire recording's of "Bird" from the radio and learning new riffs before anyone else in town had heard them.
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I know, I know. I was trying to limit the discussion to common technologies and approximate dates to save space. There was a mea culpa in the first paragraph. Wire came in in the 1930's I believe.