After telling a few stories about how he built a tape recorder as a 16-year-old boy in post-war Germany, [Hans] was finally cajoled into retelling this story in a proper form, giving the Internet ...

The mechanism that reads and writes magnetic tape as it moves past. Quality tape recorders have three heads: play (read), record (write) and erase. Many consumer products have only two ...

Magnetism can be removed by using a tape head degausser or demagnetizer with a protected tip to avoid scratching the recorder's heads. The basic procedure is as follows: slowly bring the degausser tip ...

which when exposed to the variations of the magnetic field at the recording head of a TAPE RECORDER, is arranged in similar variations, each particle of the emulsion having its own magnetic field, the ...