Today's addition to our things-we-didn't-know-we-needed-until-right-now list is an old-fashioned reel-to-reel tape recorder. Despite prerecorded tapes not being sold since about 1976, audio ...

The DAT system houses the tape in small cassettes roughly half the size of a standard ... a sliding write protect tab is provided to prevent accidental erasure. Tape recording times of up to 2 hours ...