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Monday, January 12, 2015

The Bell & Howell Language Master




First post of the year, I hope this finds you well (or at least better than I've been with a fever and head cold.)

The Bell & Howell Language Master was a language teaching system used by language and speech therapy instructors in the 1960s and '70s. It used 3 1/2" x 9" inch cards with a strip of magnetic tape that ran near the bottom of the card with two tracks that ran for 3 seconds. One for the instructor, the other for the student. It allowed switching between tracks to compare instructor/student pronunciation. 


*Guitar effects pedal (as shown in the video) not included.

Sunday, December 28, 2014

Pierre Cardin Electronics, circa 1980s








 From that strange time Pierre Cardin was into cheap, Chinese made electronics....

Also see Reader's Digest......Electronics?