A while back I picked up a device called the Tutor 202. It’s a voice/data device built on an 8-track cartridge to teach people how to read heart waveforms. It used one track for voice and another for a signal that would be converted to a pulse on the scope screen. Unfortunately, I had been unable to find any of the “programs” that would have come with it. So I was at a loss on how I might make a tape for it.

Recently I stumbled across this device called a Phonic Mirror. I picked it up in the hopes I can use it to make content for the Tutor 202. Sadly it came to me smashed due to poor shipping practices so I was able to get it to work, mostly. Plus with Jess help we made a milk crate case to put it in out of some birch plywood.. In a nutshell the Phonic Mirror is a tape looper that allows recording/playback of signals on two separate tracks of 8-track tape.

So this actually might be a way to record the voice/data tracks that the Tutor needs to work.

Stay tuned…