Tape head
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A tape head is a type of transducer used in tape recorders to convert electrical signals to magnetic fluctuations and vice versa. They can also be used to read credit/debit/gift cards because the stri
Tape head assembly from a compact cassette deck. The compact cassette uses four tracks, two for each side; visible are two heads (the silver rectangles inside the black rectangle) for playing one side of the tape at a time.
Erase head
D6 HDTV VTR Scanner and video head, removed
Inside a D6 HDTV VTR Tape Deck, VTR Scanner and video head in place.
Reel-to-reel audio tape recording, also called open-reel recording, is magnetic tape audio recording in which the recording tape is spooled between reels. To prepare for use, the supply reel containin
Tape head
…credit/debit/gift cards because the strip of magnetic tape on the back of a credit card stores data the same way that other magnetic tapes do. Cassette tapes, reel-to-reel tapes, 8-track tapes, VHS tapes, and even floppy disks and early hard disk drives all use the same principle of physics to store and read back information…
A reel-to-reel tape recorder (Sony TC-630), typical of a 1970s audiophile device.
Magnetophon from a German radio station in World War II.
Unitra ZK-147, a vintage Polish-made reel-to-reel tape recorder
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 in (270 mm) reels on PET film backings.