Tangible Media: Removable Storage of Image, Sound, Motion and Data
Tangible Media: Removable Storage of Image, Sound, Motion and Data
Tangible Media: Removable Storage of Image, Sound, Motion and Data
Magnetization
MS-61 / 61B

Date:

c. 1980

Material:

Stainless steel wire, metal reel

Dimensions:

2¼ × ½ in. (52 × 14 mm) spool

Company:

VILMA National Devices Factory

Location:

Vilnius, Lithuania, USSR

A spool for the Soviet M-61 wire recorder manufactured for the security services and for the smaller M-61B cockpit voice recorder made for Soviet jets like the MIG-25. Also used in the P-504N, the replacement for the M-61. The recording time was 5½ hours.

Sanjay Archarya (CC BY-SA 4.0)