Re: [ARSCLIST] Distance between staggered heads

[Parker Dinkins <parker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, it was actually Mike Csontos.

on 12/31/07 3:54 PM US/Central, Scott Phillips at scottp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:

> I'd love to take credit for this comment, but it wasn't mine...
> 
> Scott 
> 
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> on 12/31/07 1:44 PM US/Central, Scott Phillips at
> scottp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> 
>> A side effect of this is that when exploring a batch of paper based
>> tape that had been reused on half track machines, I was able to
>> recover the original recordings, mostly McCarthy-Army hearings and
>> radio dramas, by positioning a quarter track head to read between the
> two newer tracks.
> 
> This shows up very clearly on a 4-channel 1/4" machine, but I think
> original, center track format often found on paper based tape was
> slightly wider than half track.
> 
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