This downloadable application for Windows-compatible computers is packed with great
illustrations and text, detailing the evolution of magnetic recording, from its conception
in 1888 to the introduction of the Ampex ATR-100 analog tape recorder in 1978.
In addition, the multimedia application has guided sections on the following
topics:
Tape formats, digital, analog, and data are shown and compared, and you can review, through illustrations, the making of magnetic tape.
This multimedia program is self-contained, and was designed by Tom Neuman, former Senior Staff Engineer in charge of the Recording Technology Group at Ampex Corporation's Redwood City's headquarters. The program was originally distributed on 5 floppy disks.
Fortunately, Quantegy, the company that was formed to continue manufacturing Ampex-formula tape, has given EUonline permission to distribute this multimedia application to its registered members.
The executable file is 12MB in size, and was designed to run on MS Windows TM compatible computers.
TO DOWNLOAD:
There are several ways to get the executable:
1. Download the self-extracting executable (4.6MB, just run it to unzip the file to a folder of your choosing)
2. Download the ZIPped file (4.6MB, and you will need pkunzip,WINZIP, or other compatable utility)
3. Download the ready-to-run executable (12MB, a really huge file, but you only have to download it once.)
Coming Soon: Download one "disk" worth at a time.
Instructions: Download each "disk" to
the same directory.
When all the "disks" have been downloaded, UNZIP Disk 1 and RUN the setup.exe
file.
You will be prompted to enter a directory where the playable executable file will reside.
Disk 1 (Disk 1 is a 1.24MB ZIPPED file containing setup.exe,
setup.inf, splash.bmp, and isource.001)
Disk 2 (Disk 2 [1.37MB] through 5 are data files that setup.exe
will use to construct the playable executable file)
Disk 3 (1.37MB)
Disk 4 (1.37MB)
Disk 5 (559KB)
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