London-based Magnetic Scrolls was an early pioneering ... the oxide material (which is what stores the data) to the backing tape, and this binder can absorb water over the years.

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 Magnetic tape superseded the earlier magnetic wire recorders after World War II because of the ease with which one could splice ...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

If you have ever used a tape measure, you may have noticed a little hole or slot on the end of it. We'll tell you what that ...

To fund the creation of Apple's first computer, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs sold... Before DVDs and Blu-ray, and before CDs and Walkmans were cool, there was of course the trusted VCR that used a ...

Try the activity to see which metal objects are magnetic. Then try another fun activity with metals and magnets! Use tape to attach the magnet to the ruler so that the magnet is facing away from the ...

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 ...

The mechanism that reads and writes magnetic tape as it moves past. Quality tape recorders have three heads: play (read), record (write) and erase. Many consumer products have only two ...