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 ...

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 ...

5 mil where 1 mil = 1/1000 inch) for different purposes, which now include video and digital recording. The most common backings used for tape are polyester and mylar (which stretch when subjected to ...

The first electronic storage medium, magnetic tape is made of flexible plastic with one side coated with a ferromagnetic material. The data are recorded as binary digits (bits) in the form of ...

The mechanism that reads and writes magnetic tape as it moves past. Quality tape recorders have three heads: play (read), record (write) and erase. Many consumer products have only two ...

Analog recordings are at risk of disappearing as old tech breaks down and spare parts run out.

“If you had a really moldy tape, there was mold flying everywhere,” Crouch told me about existing cleaning methods. “I just ...

London-based Magnetic Scrolls was ... enough data to be read from the tapes to recover several games worth of code, ready for the re-releasing process. The video after the break shows [Rob Jarratt ...

Before DVDs and Blu-ray, and before CDs and Walkmans were cool, there was of course the trusted VCR that used a form of magnetic tape video recording. A VHS cassette contained up to about 1,410 ...