Recording on solid-steel media, whether wire or tape, remained the dominant form of magnetic recording outside Germany until about 1950. “The Museum has 17 such recorders dating from the 1940s and ...

For a brief period in the 1940’s it might have been possible for a young enamored soul to hand his hopeful a romantic mix-spool of wire. This was right before the magnetic tape recorder and its ...

For a brief period in the 1940’s it might have been possible for a young enamored soul to hand his hopeful a romantic mix-spool of wire. This was right before the magnetic tape recorder and i… ...

TAPE recorders cost money. As recreational devices, they have found market, so far, among bird-song enthusiasts, ... using a steel wire passed between two 2-foot reels at tremendous speed.

A historic steel-foil-based data recorder is seen at Germany's Bundesamt fuer Fluguntersuchung BFU (German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation) at their headquarters in Braunschweig ...

Magnetic tape, 3M, 6250 CPI for computer tape drives, used as storage media between 1970 and 1990 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This year, 2012, digital plastic substrate magnetic tape turns 60 years old.

Teenage Engineering imbued this digital recorder with layers of nostalgia, evoking both the early-ish days of digital (like Apple’s original iPod, Gizmodo points out) and the yet-more-distant ...

But before the days of cheap, durable flash memory, and even before magnetic tape, here's how a flight data recorder worked: By scribing lines in a long sheet of inconel steel foil: A metal hard ...

Ampex sold the first video tape recorder for $50,000 in 1956. By 1971, Sony began marketing the first at-home VCRs. After Ginsberg’s invention broke, nothing was ever the same for the ...