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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the early 1960s, technology companies like Phillips began experimenting with condensing reel-to-reel tape players and recorders into something that could be carried around and used by a layperson.

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, ...

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 ...

There were a few generations of 1″ video tape. By 1982, “Type C” would have been ubiquitous, as it was widely adopted as the US broadcast standard in the late 70’s.

The Fisher-Price PXL 2000 PixelVision could record low quality black and white video on cassette tapes back in the ‘80s. Photo: Mattel ()Some of our more veteran readers might remember that ...

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 ...