WEB > A familiar Get Smart prop on Ebay!

noidguy · Post by **noidguy** » Tue Nov 05, 2002 9:18 pm

A part of Octavia lives on.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 1578019056

tectile · Post by **tectile** » Wed Nov 06, 2002 6:27 am

I wonder if this object is realy what the seller claims it is?
I don't have the episode on tape but if memory serves, Octavia's geears were yellow or off white not orangish red.
Am I wrong?
It sure wouldn't be the first time.

I always thought that was probably used for the effect was a very small reel to reel tape machine. These were cheap and very comon at the time "It takes one to know one" was filmed.

For all you kiddies born after 1980, people used to wind very long strips of magnetic tape onto reels and thread them through a complicated mechanical device onto another reel and actualy record sounds.

Jeez I'm old!

Baron · Post by **Baron** » Wed Nov 06, 2002 10:06 am

tectile wrote:
For all you kiddies born after 1980, people used to wind very long strips of magnetic tape onto reels and thread them through a complicated mechanical device onto another reel and actualy record sounds.

Jeez I'm old!

IBM computers were tape-based back then, too! This prop looks like a couple of cut up "Spirograph" discs on top of an old Erector-set motor - note the teeth surrounding both "reels."

Hang in there, Methusela - I feel your pain!