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2. Reel-to-reel audio tape recording - Wikipedia

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   7-inch reel of 1 ⁄ 4-inch-wide (6.4 mm) recording tape, typical of non-professional use in the 1950s–70s. Studios generally used 10 1 ⁄ 2 inch reels on PET film backings. Inexpensive reel-to-reel tape recorders were widely used for voice recording in the home and in schools, along with dedicated models expressly made for business dictation.

3. Audio tape specifications - Wikipedia

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   A seven-inch reel of 1 ⁄ 4 in (6.4 mm) tape. The tape decks of the 1950s were mainly designed to use tape 1 ⁄ 4 inch (0.64 cm) wide and to accept one of two reel formats: 10 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (27 cm) reels, almost always with metal flanges, which fit over a hub three inches in diameter.

4. Audiotape - Wikipedia

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   The tape used by reel machines varied in size and formulation with various companies and even broadcasters using their own proprietary methods to record onto tape. The tape at which the tape was read was also important to these machines as a slower speed meant an audible hiss could be heard while playing back the recording.

5. Tape recorder - Wikipedia

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   A reel-to-reel tape recorder from Akai, c. 1978. An audio tape recorder, also known as a tape deck, tape player or tape machine or simply a tape recorder, is a sound recording and reproduction device that records and plays back sounds usually using magnetic tape for storage.

6. Timeline of audio formats - Wikipedia

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   A cartridge format for embedding and easy handling usual 3-inch-tape-reels with 1 ⁄ 4 inch tape, compatible to reel-to-reel audio recording in 3 + 3 ⁄ 4 ips. 1965 8-Track (Stereo-8) The inside of an 8-track cartridge Analog, 1 ⁄ 4 inch wide tape, 3 + 3 ⁄ 4 in/s, endless-loop cartridge DC-International cassette system

7. Magnetic tape - Wikipedia

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   7-inch reel of ¼-inch-wide audio recording tape, typical of consumer use in the 1950s–70s. Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic storage made of a thin, magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic film. It was developed in Germany in 1928, based on the earlier magnetic wire recording from Denmark. Devices that use magnetic tape ...

8. Magnetic-tape data storage - Wikipedia

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   This translates into about 5 megabytes to 140 megabytes per standard length (2,400 ft, 730 m) reel of tape. Effective density also increased as the interblock gap (inter-record gap) decreased from a nominal 3 ⁄ 4 inch (19 mm) on 7-track tape reel to a nominal 0.30 inches (7.6 mm) on a 6250 bpi [clarification needed] 9-track tape reel. [12]

9. 9-track tape - Wikipedia

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   9-track tape is a format for magnetic-tape data storage, introduced with the IBM System/360 in 1964. The 1 ⁄ 2 inch (12.7 mm) wide magnetic tape media and reels have the same size as the earlier IBM 7-track format it replaced, but the new format has eight data tracks and one parity track for a total of nine