2007.16.4

APH Panasonic Cassette Recorder

American Printing House for the Blind

Black plastic chassis; Manually operated cassette door, speaker grill, and AM/FM radio dial on front; microphone, volume dial, tuning dial, headphone jack, and source selector switch on top; cassette controls on left side; tape speed (15/16 and 1 7/8) switch on back; track selector and variable speed control on auxiliary control box mounted to bottom; back has slot for belt clip and battery compartment (AAx2).

H-5.125 W-3.5 D-1.375 inches

1996

Panasonic(Matsushita Electric Industrial Company), American Printing House

Taiwan; Louisville, KY

APH Collection

Introduced in 1996 in the same catalog as the Handi-cassette II. The Panasonic is basically an off-the-shelf consumer model with modifications for variable speed and the option to listen to 4-track talking books at 15/16 ips. The unit lacked the variable speech and indexing controls found on the Handi-Cassette II, but was the smallest 4-track cassette recorder ever marketed by APH. It also was the only machine sold by APH that included a radio receiver. The unit had been discontinued by 1998.

APH Collection, 2007.16