18.02.2024, 22:04
Hi, the year of that US series is just a guesstimate, trying to find parallels between these and our German models which I am more familiar with. Agfabasf places them into 1976:
http://agfabasf.com/catalog/basf/basf-1976-us/
Before that line-up, BASF only made SK, (few) LH, and some special use derivates of SK like Headmaster and Dictation series, at their US plant in Bedford. "Better" models like LH super and chromdioxid were imported from Germany, keeping the original design.
In the black line-up, Performance Series was the same as earlier SK, and Studio Series was German LH super, the latter being replaced by a new US-developed tape in the following line-up, those with the yellow star "Improved Formula" on the inlay:
http://agfabasf.com/images/content/img10...1978)2.jpg
Yes, the Agfa PC cassette should be from around 1982-85, the time when using cassettes as a storage medium for home computers reached their top. But I have never seen those anywhere back in the day; it was like 5-10 years ago when a Swedish record mail order store had found thousands of those in their storage and sold them dirt cheap on their website, and a few weeks later they started to pop up on eBay every now and then.
I have tried to find more interesting details in the codes on BASF video cassettes, but unfortunately without success. I can't see more than day & year, either...
Regards
Martin
http://agfabasf.com/catalog/basf/basf-1976-us/
Before that line-up, BASF only made SK, (few) LH, and some special use derivates of SK like Headmaster and Dictation series, at their US plant in Bedford. "Better" models like LH super and chromdioxid were imported from Germany, keeping the original design.
In the black line-up, Performance Series was the same as earlier SK, and Studio Series was German LH super, the latter being replaced by a new US-developed tape in the following line-up, those with the yellow star "Improved Formula" on the inlay:
http://agfabasf.com/images/content/img10...1978)2.jpg
Yes, the Agfa PC cassette should be from around 1982-85, the time when using cassettes as a storage medium for home computers reached their top. But I have never seen those anywhere back in the day; it was like 5-10 years ago when a Swedish record mail order store had found thousands of those in their storage and sold them dirt cheap on their website, and a few weeks later they started to pop up on eBay every now and then.
I have tried to find more interesting details in the codes on BASF video cassettes, but unfortunately without success. I can't see more than day & year, either...
Regards
Martin