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[2] [3] Through the 1980s and 1990s, Sony created many versions and variations in the cassette tape Walkman line [4] such as the DD series and WM series. Below is an incomplete list of cassette tape based Walkman models. Sony Walkman TPS-L2, from 1979. Sony Walkman WM-F15, released 1984. Sony Walkman WM-28, early 1980s Sony Walkman WM-F77 ...
Sony TC-50 cassette tape recorder on display at the Houston Space Center NASA furnished every astronaut with a Sony TC-50 from Apollo 7 in 1968 onward. [ 1 ] Procured to facilitate the recording of personal mission logs, negating the need for additional paper work, the TC-50 was also used by astronauts to play their favorite mixtapes in the ...
DASH is capable of recording two channels of audio on a quarter-inch tape, and 24 or 48 tracks on 1 ⁄ 2-inch-wide (13 mm) tape [1] [2] [3] on open reels of up to 14 inches. The data is recorded on the tape linearly, [ 4 ] with a stationary recording head , [ 5 ] as opposed to the DAT format, where data is recorded helically with a rotating ...
The first consumer tape recorder to employ a tape reel permanently housed in a small removable cartridge was the RCA tape cartridge, which appeared in 1958 as a predecessor to the cassette format. At that time, reel-to-reel recorders and players were commonly used by enthusiasts but required large individual reels and tapes which had to be ...
A reel-to-reel tape recorder from Akai, c. 1978. An audio tape recorder, also known as a tape deck, tape player or tape machine or simply a tape recorder, is a sound recording and reproduction device that records and plays back sounds usually using magnetic tape for storage.
NT cassette compared to various memory cards. The system was an R-DAT based system which stored memos using helical scan on special microcassettes, which were 30 mm × 21.5 mm × 5 mm with a tape width of 2.5 mm, with a recording capacity of up to 120 minutes similar to Digital Audio Tape.
[2] The first Sony camcorder capable of recording to standard 8mm videotape was the Sony CCD-V8, with 6x zoom but only manual focus, released in 1985 with an MSRP of approximately $1,175, [8] ($3,329 in 2023) and a mass of 1.97 kg (4 lb 5½ oz). [9] [10] The same year, Sony released the CCD-V8AF which added autofocus. [9]
A Sony PCM-501ES EIAJ LPCM Adapter on a Sony SL-HF360 VTR. The Sony PCM-1600 was the first commercial video-based 16-bit recorder. The 1600 (and its later versions, the 1610 and 1630) used special U-matic-format VCRs also furnished by Sony for transports, such as the BVU-200B (the first model of VCR optimized to work, and sold with, the PCM-1600 in 1979), [2] BVU-800DA, VO-5630DA, and the ...