[NJARC] 40's Console Radio/record player/ recording system

[Alex Magoun]

RCA introduced home disc recording in 1931; The RAE-79 retailed for $995
and was marketed to only 500 customers (shades of the RCA 2000 space-age TV
console, 2,000 of which were produced):
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71UdU%2B9v7mL._SL1442_.jpg.  The 1932
high-end console can be seen here in living color:
http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11423.  The panic and
hysterical efforts at optimism in selling these as the economy tanked is
evident among the marketing memos in the Hagley Library's RCA Victor
collection 2069.

See www.phonozoic.net/recordio/ for an encyclopedic collection of
professional and consumer recording blank labels from the 1930s through the
1960s.

Best, Alex
-- 
Alexander B. Magoun, Ph.D.
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