I was watching a Bing Documentary and they were talking about the Ampex Tape recorders. I remember when I was around 4 or 5 years old my father came home with a portable reel to reel tape recorder with the orange color tape( that had a nice smell). He was a construction worker and someone gave it to him at one of the jobs. It had a greenish color hard cover and it was upright not a horizontal one. I played with it all the time. Then we had a fire a few years later and everything was taken. I always wanted to find that machine. I looked on eBay but didn't see any that resembled it. I am just curious about it, it seemed like a good one. I can't believe I remembered it after all the years.