Panasonic Magic Cassette Mechanism

[@jasejj]

I'm not sure that is so clever to be honest. The el cheapo "Tanashin-type" mechs with the piano keys have a single motor for both decks, and manage to run all functionality independently without causing significant speed disruption on either deck. This design would have annoyed me greatly if I'd owned this system.

[@timf-tinkering]

Yes, it's not as ingenious as it appears is it. The two decks are basically independent. The motor is attached to one deck in the normal way, but on the other deck they've just put an additional pulley where the motor would be, and run a longer belt across to the motor on the first deck. The logic is then adjusted to prevent certain simultaneous operations across the decks. I, too, would have found the inability to rewind one tape while listening to another quite annoying back in the day.

[@planje4740]

I`m not impressed
- this is technology
Auto-Reverse: The Hard Way
Akai's impressively complicated 1972 Invert-O-Matic Cassette Auto-Reverse mechanism
- can nobody anyone more to make
- no country in world have high educated engineers