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The DA-1 was Casio's first DAT recorder and was introduced in 1987.

It was too early to have SCMS, and unfortunatelty it did not have any digital I/O.

Used a dot-matrix LCD display.

Compact, lightweight, fully portable


Sub Codes

• ABS (absolute time)Indicates the time elapsed from the beginning of the tape.

• Program timeIndicates the time elapsed for each selection.

• Start IDIndicates the beginning of a selection.

• Program numberIndicates the sequential number of the selection. All selections should be in proper order on the tape.

• Display charactersIdentification messages can be created, using up to 28 alphanumeric characters.These are displayed during recording or playback of the selection.
• Skip IDMarks selection to be skipped over. When a skip ID is reached. play automatically skips to the beginning of the next selection.

Display characters
Identification messages Idisplay characters) can be created, using up to 28 alphanumeric characters. These are only displayed during recording or playback of the corresponding selection, and are useful in identifying artist name, musical genre. song name, etc. In addition, you can search and play according to these user-programmable codes.