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Chapters: Magnetic Tape, Punched Tape, Compact Cassette, Linear Tape-Open, Magnetic Tape Data Storage, Sticky-Shed Syndrome, Digital Linear Tape, Group Code Recording, Quarter-Inch Cartridge, Digital Data Storage, Storagetek Tape Formats, Advanced Intelligent Tape, Ibm 3480 Family, Data8, Iomega Ditto Drive, D6 Hdtv Vtr, Ibm Magstar Mp 3570, Ibm 3850, Ibm 3592, Travan, Ibm 3590, Tape Label, Digital Cassettes, Vxa, Digital Tape Format, Advanced Digital Recording, Data Storage Technology, Azimuth Recording, Scratch Tape, Digital Instrumentation Recorder. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 141. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. Although originally designed for dictation, improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant reel-to-reel tape recording in most non-professional applications. Its uses ranged from portable audio to home recording to data storage for early microcomputers. Between the early 1970s and late 1990s, the cassette was one of the two most common formats for prerecorded music, first alongside the LP and later the Compact Disc. Cassette is a French word meaning "little box." Compact Cassettes consist of two miniature spools, between which a magnetically coated plastic tape is passed and wound. These spools and their attendant parts are held inside a protective plastic shell. Two stereo pairs of tracks (four total) or two monaural audio tracks are available on the tape; one stereo pair or one monophonic track is played or recorded when the tape is moving in one direction and the second pair when moving in the other direction. This reversal is achieved either by manually flipping the cassette or by having the machine itself...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=65880
Computer Storage Tape Media: Magnetic Tape, Punched Tape, Compact Cassette, Linear Tape-Open, Magnetic Tape Data Storage, Sticky-Shed Syndrome
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