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Essential Parts of an ATR
Transport, Heads, Tape, Repro/Record Electronics
Common maintenance performed:
Cleaning, degaussing, alignment
Order of alignment steps:
Tape tension, head alignment, repro electrical, record electrical
Alignment tools
Test tape, spring scale, scope, VOM
Method of record bias most commonly used today?
AC bias
The pre-emphasis and de-emphasis EQ curves compensate for these losses
Record & Repro
The effective gap length
Is 10% larger than the physical gap length.
Repro effective gap length is typically ______ the Record effective gap length
Twice
What causes HF loss on a magnetic tape?
Gap length, overbias, poor storage

Which of these operating levels shall exhibit a greater amount of self-erasure over time?

  1. 185 nW/m
  2. 320 nW/m
  3. 480 nW/m 
480 nW/m
Megaphone & Wax Cylinder: When and Who?
1877 Thomas Edison
Gramophone  
1890 Emil Berliner
Valve (tube) invented by who and when?
DeForest 1907
Who and when invented magnetic recording?
Valdimar Poulsen 1898
In 1909, Poulsen discovered what?
That by adding DC bias, the s/n ratio improved.
Who was the first developer of magnetic tape?
Fritz Pflurr
Who is credited with discoveing AC bias?
Dr. Weber, in 1927
Ampex introduced the first commericially available magnetic tape recorder in what year?
1947
The five mechanical head alignments:
  1. Height
  2. Zenith/Skew/Tilt
  3. Contact/Rack
  4. Wrap
  5. Azimuth
What two types of changes occur during the magnetization process?
  1. Changes in volume of some magnetic domains at the expense of others.
  2. Change in the direction of magnetism of the domain.
Coercivity
The force (current) needed to reduce the remnants of magnetism to zero.
Retentivity
The amount of magnetization or flux density remaining in the magnetic material after the magnetizing force has returned to zero.
Sensitivity
The highest output level tape can deliver before saturation. Expressed as relative sensitivity, relating to some reference, such as what is on a test tape.
Where does recording take place? 
The trailing edge

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