A machine that records audio or video onto magnetic tape. A tape "recorder" or tape "deck" generally refers to earlier analog devices, such as a VHS tape recorder. Until the 1990s, analog audio ...

They had their first video tape recorder by 1963. They weren’t the only ones, but they were among the first and best. The so-called VTR business had a rocky start.

During her life she gave many lectures though, and as [Michael Ravnitzky] discovered, one of them was recorded on video tape and resides in the archives of America’s National Security Agency.

But things could have taken a different path. In this video from Techmoan, we are introduced to Japan's SANYO Micro-Pack 35 tape recorder. The device was gorgeously designed, including a leather case.

The heads on the drum of a Betamax VCR move across the tape, producing a writing speed of 6.9 or 5.832 meters per second with the drum rotating at 1800 rpm (NTSC, 60 Hz) or 1500 rpm (PAL, 50 Hz).

AMPEX engineers called their machine the VR-1000; it used a spinning head and ran 2" tape, and would be the first in AMPEX's line of Quadruplex recorders. The team was led by Charles Ginsburg, and ...

In celebration of the 57th birthday of the first commercial video cassette recorder, check out a fun VHS mode for the YouTube player to relive the magic feel of vintage video tapes.

One of the towering figures in the evolution of computer science was Grace Hopper, an American mathematician, academic, and Naval reservist, whose work gave us the first programming languages, comp… ...