London-based Magnetic ... of the DEC TK50Z tape drive, which needed to shuttle the whole length of the tape as part of its normal operation. A temporary solution was to bake the tape in an oven ...

There was a time in the not-too-distant past when magnetic tape was ... immediately to make the switch on-the-fly. [Serial Hobbyism]’s game plays a trivia-style audio recording and asks the ...

5 mil where 1 mil = 1/1000 inch) for different purposes, which now include video and digital recording. The tape is coated with an oxide EMULSION, which when exposed to the variations of the magnetic ...

Magnetic tape superseded the earlier magnetic wire recorders after World War II because of the ease with which one could splice and therefore edit the tape. Standard tape recording formats for ...