12 Facts About Tandberg

Tandberg was an electronics manufacturer located in Oslo, Norway and New York City, United States .

Tandberg began in the radio field, but became more widely known for their reel-to-reel tape recorders as well as cassette decks and televisions.

The following year, the company re-formed whilst their data division was split off as Tandberg Data, including the tape recording division, which reduced its scope to data recording.

Over time the original Tandberg company became increasingly involved in the teleconferencing systems, and became a leader in that field.

Tandberg Data is officially a German company, and continues to make computer tape storage systems.

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Tandberg licensed the concept to Akai, who utilized it extensively in the 1970s and 80s, in their Akai and Roberts recorders.

In 1964, Tandberg inaugurated a new method of language teaching, the language laboratory, and with it their first fully transistorized tape recorder, the model 10, a recorder designed to serve as the teacher recorder in language classrooms.

In 1969, Tandberg finally abandoned the use of vacuum tubes in their recorders, and the 6X which had introduced cross-field recording to the world, the last tube recorder still manufactured by Tandberg, went out of production.

That same year a new lineup of transistorized Tandberg recorders entered the market to fill the gap left by the preceding models.

In 1972, Tandberg purchased Radionette, another large Norwegian electronics firm now focusing on televisions.

Under the control of Siemens, Tandberg Data took over the computer terminal and tape recording parts of the company, moving the latter purely into the computer storage field.

In February 2011, Tandberg was officially rebranded to Cisco, however the Tandberg name continues to be extensively used .