The Mohawk Midget Recorder,
1950's
Prior to about 1950, tape recorders had been mostly big and bulky. Most
of the "portable" ones where about the size of a typewriter.
That all changed when the Mohawk Business Machines Company of New York
released what they called The Midget Recorder around 1950. It was about
6" x 10" in size and used a small tape cartridge, shown to inside
of the recorder. A modern revolution for it's time. If you were a private
investigator and had one of these back then, everyone in town marveled
at at.
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