Exploration of the Standard SR200 - tiny reel to reel vintage tape recorder. In the 1960's, a little reel to reel portable vintage tape recorder was made by Standard of Japan. It is so tiny that it uses little 2 inch reels, smaller than even those of the Concord F-20, Concord F-85 and it's twin the National SNAP (see my videos on YouTube for Concord F-20 and National SNAP) in clydesight channel. The little Standard SR200 may not have ever been marketed in the United States; I have never seen it in catalogs or other sources. The machine in this video came with an original Japanese store price tag of 12,800 YEN (about $45 US dollars in the 1960's.) This video shows the little machine in operation and how it was so carefully made. It is hampered only by its rather cheap amplifier and DC bias recording system. That's a pity because the transport was very well engineered, and the reel to reel tape recorder has the same intelligent accessibility as the Lloyd's 8V84A cassette recorder that appeared about the same time. See video 'Embracing Your Inner Cassette Recorder - Lloyd's 8V84A' at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V1F9D6bBdY on YouTube. Perhaps the Standard Radio Corporation is the parent company of Lloyd's? In spite of the poor amplifier, sound can be improved by plugging it into an external speaker. In the video, I use one of the speakers from my Wollensak 5750 restoration project. See ' Wollensak 5750 Vintage Tape Recorder Restoration' at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAW7MCrPc10 on YouTube. The little reel to reel tape recorder can also make radio recordings, (appropriate to the time - there was no MP3 back then) and I use the Ampex Micro 28 radio/cassette recorder to prove the point. See ' Mastertape Theater - AMPEX Micro 28 radio cassette recorder' at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jJ1RXpSYEU on YouTube. Although the machine has disappointing sonic performance, it has a solid drive system and clever accessibility, and it is just the cutest little thing I've seen in years! ************** The Old Standard - Standard SR200! is sponsored by ClydeSight Production's COUNT MY TEXT! character and word counting and optimizing software. It is ideal for users of YouTube, Xanga, DIGG, MYSPACE, bloggers and others who submit text information to Social Internet Web sites. Many such sites limit character counts in profiles and comments sections. COUNT MY TEXT! not only allows you to compose and count your text for submission off-line, it OPTIMIZES it for you, stripping out redundant spaces and extraneous codes so you can make maximum use of the limited space the social Internet sites allow. It is also very useful for optimizing Keywords, Title and Description tags for SEO on Web sites. For more information, please visit: http://www.clydesight.com/cmt/ *************