Akeel Ahmad

Permission

Glasgow

    Interview               English

“It was a compact cassette, a self-contained compact cassette, which was fairly common at that time, and originally  it was only mono and we would have like 60-minute and then of course we started getting double-sided tapes, you know, 90 minute tapes, and you even had 120 minutes, but the standard length was 60 minute tapes. The machine itself was about that size, it was quite bulky. It had like two control knobs, one for tone, one for volume. And it was like a flip top, you know, and it had an additional mic you plug in, and basically that’s what it did. It was a Phillips make, it was made by Phillips, I remember that. And it used four C type batteries, you know those big chunky batteries, yeah four of them – it was quite bulky. The machine was basically mum’s, so we had to use it with her permission and only her permission.”