“The Museum has 17 such recorders dating from the 1940s and 1950s. Perhaps most interesting, however, is our Blattnerphone, or Marconi-Stille recorder. This large device, which recorded on steel tape ...

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… ...

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Flight recorders or "black boxes," used in investigations of aviation catastrophes since the mid-20th century, have developed considerably over the years. While older recorders contained spools of ...

TAPE recorders cost money. As recreational devices, they have found market, so far, among bird-song enthusiasts, sound maniacs, and cocktail-party gagsters. Now, however, that canny character, the ...

This year, Swedish electronics manufacturer Teenage Engineering launched two new devices: a microphone, theCM-15, and a digital tape recorder, the TP-7. If purchased together, they’ll run you ...

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 ...

Teenage Engineering teases the TP-7, a teeny portable digital recorder with a drool-worthy "motorized tape reel" and a summer release date.

Now's your chance, as a vintage Studer A80 analogue tape machine that formerly belonged to Ringo Starr is going up for sale, giving you the opportunity to place a rare piece of equipment with a ...

The Inventor of Videotape Recorders Didn’t Live to See Blockbuster’s Fall As far as Charles Ginsberg was concerned, the video tape was “one of the most significant technological advances ...

It was more cost-effective and had superior sound quality to rival steel-tape designs. One of the first live concerts ever to be recorded was on a Magnetophon tape recorder (on the next-gen K2 model): ...