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3 unusual facts about magnetic tape


Magnetic tape

It was the team at Ampex, led by Charles Ginsburg, that made the breakthrough of using a spinning recording head and normal tape speeds to achieve a very high head-to-tape speed that could record and reproduce the high bandwidth signals of video.

It was only after the war that Americans, particularly Jack Mullin, John Herbert Orr, and Richard H. Ranger, were able to bring this technology out of Germany and develop it into commercially viable formats.

Magnetic tape was invented for recording sound by Fritz Pfleumer in 1928 in Germany, based on the invention of magnetic wire recording by Valdemar Poulsen in 1898.


Charles Duchaussois

Upon his return, he recorded the tale of his adventure on 18 magnetic tapes and sent it to Fayard publishing house in December 1970., Insanity, death & excess, it was the decade.

Computer file

Computer files can be also stored on other media in some cases, such as magnetic tapes, compact discs, Digital Versatile Discs, Zip drives, USB flash drives, etc.

IBM 5110

Offering either magnetic tape or diskette storage, the Model 1 could store as much as 204,000 bytes of information per tape cartridge or 1.2 million bytes on a single diskette; the Model 2 allowed only diskette storage.

Magnasee

Magnasee is a product used to visualize the magnetic fields recorded onto magnetic recording media such as magnetic tape, diskettes, and the like.

Recording Media Group International

Recording Media Group International (also known as RMG) is a Dutch manufacturer of magnetic tape products based in Oosterhout.

UNIPRINTER

The UNIPRINTER read metal UNIVAC magnetic tape using a tape reader and typed the data at 10 characters per second using a modified Remington typewriter.

UNIVAC 1050

In these installations the big computer (e.g., a UNIVAC III) did all of its input-output on magnetic tapes and the 1050 was used to format input data from other peripherals (e.g., punched card readers) on the tapes and transfer output data from the tapes to other peripherals (e.g., punched card punches or the lineprinter).


see also

3590

IBM 3590, a series of tape drives and corresponding magnetic tape data storage media formats developed by IBM

EMTEC

1991 - The German chemical company BASF acquired Agfa-Gevaert's magnetic tape business, creating BASF Magnetics.

Hüsnü Şenlendirici

He played in the "magnetic tape" the percussionist Okay Temiz and performed at hundreds of festivals in Turkey.

John Mullin

Jack Mullin (1913–1999), American pioneer in the field of magnetic tape sound recording

Magnetophon

American audio engineer Jack Mullin acquired two Magnetophon recorders and fifty reels of magnetic tape from a German radio station at Bad Nauheim near Frankfurt in 1945.