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 ...

A machine that records audio or video onto magnetic tape. A tape "recorder" or tape "deck" generally refers to earlier analog devices, such as a VHS tape recorder. Until the 1990s, analog audio ...

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 ...