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 ...

Posted in classic hacks Tagged magnetic, old, old tech, sound, steel, tape, wire recorder Voices From The Past: Recovering Audio From Wire Recordings August 30, 2014 by Kristina Panos 15 Comments ...

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.

Introduced in the 1960s, the A80 was a professional audio recorder manufactured by high-end Swiss audio brand Studer. Available in numerous configurations, ranging from mono and stereo to multi ...

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 ...

Tunde Adebimpe's debut solo album, Thee Black Boltz, had an unlikely origin: a break-in. After someone stole hard drives full of demos from his garage, Adebimpe began to rummage through his old things ...