Crazy soviet vinyl / reel-to-reel combo

Make links to this great museum of old russian radios from the 1930s-'60s. The most intriguing is this image (from the 'Author's exposition in Karelian State Museum' section) of a reel-to-reel tape recorder apparently powered by a vinyl record player. The full pic shows a microphone and some kind of control box/power supply. Anyone know anything about this? More to the point, anyone want to reverse engineer it and create some kind of awesome vinyl/tape DJ setup?


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There was a British made version of the same idea, called the GramDeck.

http://www.johansoldradios.se/taperecorders/various/gramdeck.htm

has some nice pictures of it.
 
That gallery is rockin'. How is it the Soviets never quite managed to take over the world with that kind of advanced technology?
 
I just spent a week in Ukraine and I saw quite a few sovet radios, unfortunately most were broken.
 
Broken is even better; then one has no qualms about gutting them, installing Mini-ITX motherboards and making them into kick-arse MP3 jukeboxes/embedded Linux web servers.
 
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