Uncoated tape used to separate other sections of tape is called leader. Magnetic tape superseded the earlier magnetic wire recorders after World War II because of the ease with which one could splice ...

There was a time in the not-too-distant past when magnetic tape was the primary way of listening to and recording audio. Most of us are familiar with the cassette tape, a four-track system that ...

A component that reads (senses) and writes (records) data on a magnetic disk or magnetic tape. For writing, the surface of the disk or tape is moved past the read/write head. By discharging ...

How else are you going to have any fun with magnetic tape without ripping ... Here’s how it works: [schollz] records a long, single note on a tape, then uses that recording to play different ...

The tape is coated with an oxide EMULSION, which when exposed to the variations of the magnetic field at the recording head of a TAPE RECORDER, is arranged in similar variations, each particle of the ...

one that plays and records and another that erases. Machines that record audio for movie film may have a fourth head that writes an inaudible synchronization signal. See magnetic tape. THIS ...