Magnetic tape superseded the earlier MAGNETIC WIRE recorders after World War II because of the ease ... DIGITAL RECORDING also uses magnetic tape as a storage medium, such as digital audio tape (DAT), ...

While one team of alien researchers will be puzzling over why we’d encode images on a phonograph record, another team will be tearing apart – an 8-track tape recorder? Of course, there are ...

With [Frank Olson]’s work on a 1958 Ampex 601 tape recorder though we were pleasantly surprised, because while he makes a modification to allow its use as a stand-alone microphone preamplifier ...