Recording on solid-steel media, whether wire or tape, remained the dominant form of magnetic recording outside Germany until about 1950. “The Museum has 17 such recorders dating from the 1940s and ...

For a brief period in the 1940’s it might have been possible for a young enamored soul to hand his hopeful a romantic mix-spool of wire. This was right before the magnetic tape recorder and its ...

For a brief period in the 1940’s it might have been possible for a young enamored soul to hand his hopeful a romantic mix-spool of wire. This was right before the magnetic tape recorder and i… ...

Magnetic tape, 3M, 6250 CPI for computer tape drives, used as storage media between 1970 and 1990 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This year, 2012, digital plastic substrate magnetic tape turns 60 years old.

TAPE recorders cost money. As recreational devices, they have found market, so far, among bird-song enthusiasts, ... using a steel wire passed between two 2-foot reels at tremendous speed.

Teenage Engineering imbued this digital recorder with layers of nostalgia, evoking both the early-ish days of digital (like Apple’s original iPod, Gizmodo points out) and the yet-more-distant ...

It was more cost-effective and had superior sound quality to rival steel-tape designs. One of the first live concerts ever to be recorded was on a Magnetophon tape recorder (on the next-gen K2 model): ...

But before the days of cheap, durable flash memory, and even before magnetic tape, here's how a flight data recorder worked: By scribing lines in a long sheet of inconel steel foil: A metal hard ...

Loading a different tape for playback is as simple as clicking on it in the tape drawer. Recordings are done in compressed MP4-AAC audio and can easily be exported to iTunes, e-mail, or disposed ...

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