A machine that records audio or video onto magnetic tape. A tape "recorder" or tape "deck" generally refers to earlier analog devices, such as a VHS tape recorder. Until the 1990s, analog audio ...

The first recorders consisted of racks of vacuum tubes. The recordings and servos were entirely analog, and the timer was mechanical and accurate to a few seconds an hour on a good day. Editing was ...

RIP DAT and DDS tapes, too. I used lots of 4mm helical tapes back in the days when audio cd recording (burning cd’s) was still not ready for consumers and yet we wanted bit perfect copies of ...

The Elegant 60s Japanese Tape Recorder That Could Have Been the Future In an alternate timeline, your cassette collection looked a little different. By Sophie Weiner Published: Sep 01, 2017 12:26 ...

Ampex in 1956 came up with the only real practical way to do video recording on magnetic tape, which is to spin a head, a set of heads spinning rapidly past a slow-moving tape, rather than fixed ...

Video tape recorder celebrates milestone. kgo. By ABC7. Thursday, April 15, 2010. REDWOOD CITY, CA . AMPEX engineers called their machine the VR-1000; it used a spinning head and ran 2" tape, ...

This is a prelude to creating an entire tape deck using the head, which you can see in the second video below. Continue reading “Build Your Own Tape Recorder/Player ...

But that changed in 1967, when Sony introduced the world's first portable video tape recorder. Before long, enthusiasts formed "media collectives" that captured the social and cultural upheaval of ...

To fill in one of the blanks on the cerebral map, Dr. Penfield has just offered evidence to the National Academy of Sciences that parts of the brain work like an audio-video tape recorder ...

Beta recorders initially featured a one hour recording cassette, later lengthened to match VHS. Early Beta machines were slightly larger than early VHS units and designers struggled to put a quality ...