Minifon Attaché tape recorder and accessories, 1961-1962

Minifon Attaché tape recorder and accessories with handbook, made by Protona GmbH, Hamburg, 1961-1962 and distributed by EMI Ltd in the UK.

The Minifon Attaché was a minature tape recorder, developed and built by Protona GmbH in Hamburg (Germany) around 1959 as the successor to the valve-based Mi-51 and the P-55. The Attaché is the first all-transistor recorder in the Minifon family and contains a 4-stage amplifier on a printed circuit board (PCB). It is also the first Minifon to use magnetic tape rather than wire.

Protona was taken over by Telefunken in 1962, and that the Minifon Attaché was in production right until the end of the Minifon product line in 1967.

Details

Category:
Sound Reproduction
Object Number:
1989-1170
type:
sound recorder

Parts

Tape recorder No. 53699

Tape recorder No. 53699

Tape recorder No. 53699 in leather case with index slips

Object Number:
1989-1170 Pt1
type:
tape recorder
Dynamic Microphone

Dynamic Microphone

Dynamic Microphone

Object Number:
1989-1170 Pt2
type:
microphone
Transformer/Rectifier type N3/313

Transformer/Rectifier type N3/313

Transformer/Rectifier type N3/313

Object Number:
1989-1170 Pt3
type:
transformer
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Radio connecting lead

Radio connecting lead

Radio connecting lead N/ART. No. 108 (boxed)

Object Number:
1989-1170 Pt4
type:
lead
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Radio connecting lead W/ART

Radio connecting lead W/ART

Radio connecting lead W/ART. No. 110 (boxed)

Object Number:
1989-1170 Pt5
type:
lead
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Telephone pick-up

Telephone pick-up

Telephone pick-up

Object Number:
1989-1170 Pt6
type:
pick up
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Mailable cartons for tape cassettes

Mailable cartons for tape cassettes

4 tapes in mailable cartons and 3 empty postal cartons for tape cassettes

Object Number:
1989-1170 Pt7
type:
cartons
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Ever-Ready recorder batteries type B1578

Ever-Ready recorder batteries type B1578

Ever-Ready recorder batteries type B1578, November 1969, flat (one corroding)

Object Number:
1989-1170 Pt8
type:
batteries