[Coco] Importing CCRs

[coco at yourdvd.net]

Yes, I was wrong... :-) earlier in this thread a couple of us mention
edison - to anyone who hasn't read it - the biography of Thomas Edison
is a wonderful read... -r

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Importing CCRs
> From: Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net>
> Date: Thu, March 29, 2007 8:50 am
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> 
> coco at yourdvd.net wrote:
> > I think he was referencing the punched paper tape, in response to the
> > question about the metal wire being used as a storage medium. ...
> A little farther back in the thread Gene said this:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > ...
> > Actually the first version of that used a paper tape with the
> rust/rouge 
> > coating on (supposedly) one side.  But it had a tendency to flake
> off, or 
> > stick to the other side it was wound against, so the plastic was a 
> > definite improvement.  Also, they hadn't discovered AC bias for the 
> > recording method yet, so the performance wasn't any better than a
> 1920's 
> > gramophone for noise & the DC bias made the distortion something you 
> > measured in 10's of percent.  In about ten years time (1946-1957) they 
> > went from a 20db s+sn to nearly 65db with the early Berlant-Concertone 
> > machines that could run in stereo at a transport speed of 30 ips. 
> Those 
> > had to be seen running before you realized you were listening to a 
> > recording instead of the real thing....
> So I think he's actually talking about a magnetic paper tape that was
> later replaced by tape with a plastic substrate, if I read it right.
> 
> JCE
> >
> >   
> >> -------- Original Message --------
> >> Subject: Re: [Coco] Importing CCRs
> >> From: Arthur Flexser 
> >> Date: Wed, March 28, 2007 9:39 pm
> >> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts 
> >>
> >> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>
> >>     
> >>> On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Chester A Patterson wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> Wasn't there a wire as storage media in there somewhere way back
> when?
> >>>>         
> >>> Yes, in the 40's.  It died a deserving death with the introduction
> of 
> >>> tape.  Then when tape went plastic, we used the paper version for a 
> >>> funeral pyre.
> >>>
> >>>       
> >> Are you saying that, prior to the advent of plastic, paper tape was
> somehow used
> >> for audio recording?  (Maybe you're referring to piano rolls, or
> some similar
> >> scheme for activating notes on a player, as opposed to actual audio?)
> >>
> >> Art
> >>
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