Singer's Audio Study Mate Was a 1970s Multimedia Machine

Singer's Audio Study Mate was a 1970s multimedia machine

The Audio Study Mate was a "multimedia briefcase," as Hackaday's Al Williams puts it, combining a cassette player with a 35mm film strip viewer to create a 1970s audiovisual smorgasbord. Techmoan got one and plays with it on YouTube: "An interesting looking device, but things didn't quite work out with this one." — Read the rest The post Singer's Audio Study Mate was a 1970s multimedia machine appeared first on Boing Boing.

Not A Sewing Machine: A Multimedia Briefcase

When you think of Singer, you usually think of sewing machines, although if you are a history buff, you might remember they diversified into calculators, flight simulation, and a few other odd businesses for a while. [Techmoan] has an unusual device from Singer that is decidedly not a sewing machine. It is a 1970s-era multimedia briefcase called the Audio Study Mate. This odd beast, as you can see in the video below, was a cassette player that a…