What is this tape cartridge?

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Sat Aug 23 23:56:47 1997

On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> I was checking out the local surplus shop looking for a 19" rack for my
> latest computer project, no luck there but I did find some other stuff.
>
> What I'm really wondering about is this tape cartridge I found:
>
> COUSINO
> Echo-matic II
> Self Threading
> Tape Cartridge
> Orrtronics, Incorporated
> Toledo, Ohio, USA
>
> It's quarter inch tape in a clear case approximatly 1" x 3.5" x 5" in size,
> and rounded on one end. The actual tape reel is about 2.25" and has almost
> no tape on it. The tape looks to be a continous loop. Does anyone have
> any idea what this is?
>
> Zane
>
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Reaching back more years than I like to think about, I believe that it is
a tape for a telephone answering machine. Not the kind that takes
messages, but the type that delivered a message to the caller.

There may well have been other applications also, but that one rings a
faint chime.
                                                 - don
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