Magnetic tape Essays

  • American History: Life in the 1980´s

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    Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in the 1980’s? The crazy hair styles, the new and improved things that were being created made this time alive, and fun. To be born in the 1980’s would have a been a privilege, who wouldn’t want to be known as “The decade that defined…. “US!” The 1980s was a decade that began on January 1, 1980, and ended on December 31, 1989. This decade was a great social and economic time period for people living in the 80’s. The world was becoming more developed

  • Comparison Of Honesty In Prodigy And Thirteen Reasons Why

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    Everyone has felt the issue of having to be honest or to not be honest at all. People may lie just so they don’t have to be caught in any situations that they may not want to be in. In the books Prodigy and Thirteen Reasons Why both of the authors chose for their main characters to go through these types of dilemmas. Prodigy by Marie Lu stars Day the Republic’s most wanted criminal and June the prodigy who has helped Day come this far in the series. In Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher there is a

  • Time Management for College Students

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    Time Management for College Students We all know the sound that is very familiar to us: tick, tick, tick. No, it’s not the sound of our favorite movie coming on; It’s time moving on. College students often find that time is the hardest goal to conquer. Time isn’t really a goal. Finding time to complete all of our task is a goal. As a student there are some basic principals of time management that you can apply. Identify the best time for studying. Everyone has high and low periods of attention

  • The Importance Of Hannah's Reputation

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    does but no one ever does anything about it and he keeps on doing what he does and eventually does it to Hannah “I know who he is, Clay. I know what he’s like. Believe me” (Asher 148). Clay did have a good reputation and would still have one if the tapes got out he was smart and stayed out of trouble he even tried to help Hannah but she did not let

  • Audio Cassette (MC)

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    An audio Cassette also known as Music cassette (MC) uses a magnetic tape recording format to record audio. Audio cassettes come in two forms, either pre-recorded or blank and empty. The word cassette is a French word, which itself means a little box, rectangular in shape. A famous company known as Phillips was the first one to come up with the music cassette idea, but as time passed, its huge mass production was done all over the world. In order to listen to the music stored in these cassettes, one

  • Importance Of Preservation

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    materials from cool storage to acclimate to room temperature before playing back Discs • Handle grooved discs (78s, 45s, LPs, lacquer discs) by the edge and label areas only • Handle optical discs (CDs, DVDs) by the edge and center hole only Magnetic tape (Cassettes, Audio and Video) • Handle by the outer shell only • Do not touch the spools 2.6.2 Storage Audiovisual are made of modern materials that may have inh... ... middle of paper ... ...n general scope within the institutional objectives

  • Book report

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    Jay Asher begins when Clay Jensen receives seven audiotapes recorded by Hannah Baker, a girl from his town who recently killed herself. According to Hannah, each person on her tapes is a reason for her suicide. Clay is on the tapes, yet doesn’t see why. He has to listen to figure it out. When Clay finally gets to his tape, it is exposed that he wasn’t actually blamed for her suicide. Clay realizes that even though he didn't do anything bad to Hannah, he let rumors stand in the way of their budding

  • Copyright Law in Canada

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    audio/video tape copying, plagiarism, and software piracy. The first, and most commonly violated aspect of the copyright law, is the copying of audio tapes for oneself and friends. Thanks to the invention of dual cassette stereos, this has become very easy. You simply take an original or even another copy of a tape, as well as a blank tape. Stick them both in to the stereo and bingo you have a new tape. You also just broke the law. Along with copying audio tapes, now we can copy video tapes almost as

  • 13 Reasons Why

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    put the thirteen reasons why on cassette tapes. It was very thoughtful and it actually taught me a couple things about tapes. I liked how all of Hannah’s reasons merged together. Like a puzzle, the fit together understandingly. I liked, but then I didn’t like, how Hannah was Clay’s first love. I didn’t like it because it didn’t really seem like it, but then it did. You had to keep remembering she was Clay’s first love. I also liked it because in Clay’s tape it kept me wondering “Well why didn’t he

  • Process of Electric Recordings

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    player ). Generally, in recording, the sound waves impinge on a microphone and are converted into an electrical signal that is recorded by a tape recorder. The tape can be edited if desired. When a commercial phonograph record is to be made, a disk of soft acetate composition coated on an aluminum base, called an original, is placed on a rotating turntable. The tape is played back and controls a stylus that cuts a spiral groove starting from the outer edge and moving to the inner edge of the original

  • History and Future of Music Storage Methods

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    Audiocassettes are a magnetic form of storing music. They proceeded vinyl records due to their compact design and lowered risk of being damaged. Cassettes are recorded linearly. Unlike the vinyl record, it uses a ferromagnetic substance to create a magnetized medium on the tape. It was popular because of its’ simplicity, one could record over the tape and it would retain it’s data. The transmitter is an electromagnet, which is used to record the tape. There are two sides to a tape, each side containing

  • Backup Devices and Strategies

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  • Perks of Being a Wallflower Static Image Explanation

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    I was wrapped in cassette tapes while creating this poster. With the choosing of quotes, and the random ideas flowing through my head, this was the result. The following quote, “[t]his one tape had all these memories and feelings and great joy and sadness,” (Part 2, Page 62) from The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky, was chosen due to the meaning hidden within. The overall meaning to this quote is that this tape is the thing that makes Charlie, the protagonist, feel real. Firstly

  • Disney Imagineers

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    desired to give life-like movement to 3-D figures. B. They used cams and levers to move the figures C. The cams and levers were not working so well, so they combined this idea with an electric-hydraulic-pneumatic approach. D. They also used magnetic recording tape and solenoid coils that would trigger one another to produce action. E. First audio-animatronics were used in Disneyland. 1.     The Enchanted Tiki Room opened on June 23, 1963. 2.     It had a cast of 225 birds, flowers, masks, drummers,

  • Tae Bo: Fitness Craze or Effective Workout

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    Sherman Oaks, CA was opened, introducing Tae Bo to local townspeople and limited Hollywood celebrities. By word of mouth, Tae Bo gradually gained popularity, its’ fame peaking with the release of the video package in August of 1998. The four tape video package includes an instructional video, basic workout, advanced workout, and an eight_minute workout. The videos are commonly featured on a late night infomercial where the package can be purchased for three payments of $19.95. The

  • Multi Track History

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    History and development of the Multitrack Recorder Multitrack recorders were originally developed in the early 1950s in Germany. The initial principle of multitracks was to divide a tape in two parts and record different sounds onto each and play them back concurrently. The fact that both tracks would be on the same tape would mean they would be synchronised exactly. In classical music recordings of the 1950s, the early two track machines were first used and recorded in stereo. Two different mics would

  • How The Tape Recorder And Their Impact On Society

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    but overall it truly helps us for the better. Although many people may not agree that the tape recorder is one of the most important, I believe that is has had one of the most impacts on our society. The rise of the tape recorder made its mark in 1898 when Danish inventor, Valdemar Poulsen, manufactured a device called the “Telegraphon” that recorded phone calls when the person being called was absent (“The Tape Recorder”). And since then it has grown into a much more complex and has grown in the sense

  • Subliminal Messages

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    subliminal messaging does in fact work. Many people think that subliminal messages in the field of advertising are much more successful than subliminal messages for self-improvement, such as tapes sold to help the consumer lose weight, gain intelligence, or do something else to improve themselves simply by listening to a tape. Subliminal advertising can be defined as "embedding material in print, audio, or video messages so faintly that they are not consciously perceived." Rogers and Smith (1993) surveyed

  • krista bradford

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    People running around with underwear on their head, a fake suicide over the Niagara Falls, forest rangers who are positive they seen Bigfoot, and sheriffs who make x-rated videos on a rented video camera and forget to take the tape out. These are some of the wacky stories Krista Bradford experiences during her career as an anchor on tabloid television. She tries to convince the reader that TV tabloids are trashy in the article “The Big Sleaze published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1993. Bradford

  • Behind The Gare Saint-Lazare

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    proving or asserting one’s own originality.” Cartier-Bresson worked only with a Leica camera, one of the quietest and fastest of the day. The Leica camera was perfect for Cartier-Bressons documentary style photography, but as an added effect he put black tape over the metallic front as to remain as hidden as possible, a technique that has been copied ever since. He used mainly a 50mm lens and black and white film. Cartier-Bresson shot his pictures with a 50mm lens, because in order to capture a decisive