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 ...

London-based Magnetic Scrolls was an early pioneering ... that a small amount of the oxide layer sheds from the tape, coating the read head, rollers and guides inside the complicated tape mechanism.

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 ...

Digital recording also uses magnetic tape as a storage medium, such as digital audio tape (DAT), but these smaller formats cannot be spliced. The tape speed for the DAT format is only 8.15 mm/sec ...