Color TV on tape (Popular Mechanics April 1954)

[Aussie Bloke]

G'day all.

I've just bought from my local antique store a couple of 1954 issues of Popular Mechanics and the April edition had an article entitled "Color TV on tape" which was about the early prototype videotape recording machine made by RCA which can record television in both colour and black & white. From what I learned about these, they used up so much tape to record only a few minutes of video in which they were not practical for commercial use. Below the article and photos is a pictorial demonstration of the obvious advantages the videotape machine had over the standard kinescope process.

I really wonder if it has actually been documented that this videotape machine and tapes were destroyed or not after RCA were done with the experiment? If not, I wonder about the possibility of the tapes still being out there somewhere?

Anyways I've uploaded the article to photobucket for you all to see:
http://i837.photobucket.com/albums/z...anicsapr54.jpg