In 1949, [Hans] was but a wee lad of 16 and having built a crystal and tube radio set ... an amplifier, tape transport mechanism, a recording and playback head, and homemade magnetic tape made ...

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 Magnetic tape superseded the earlier magnetic wire recorders after World War II because of the ease with which one could splice ...

Magnetic tape recordings used in videotapes and cassette tapes, which were popular up to the 2000s, are at risk of being lost as the tapes deteriorate and replay equipment are no longer produced.

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 ...

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 ...