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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Create a 2" wide fixed magnetic head that would pick up the raw magnetic image directly off the tape and store it as a set of digital strings. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Now all you need to do is write a program that can recognize and re-assemble the different signatures of the formats and spit out a video image. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">RCA, <SPAN id=misspell-0 class=mark>AMPEX<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></SPAN>, <SPAN id=misspell-1 class=mark>IVC</SPAN>, BOSCH, NASA, all could be reduced to a <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-2><SPAN>algorithm</SPAN></SPAN> and loss of control track or superficial tape damage could be overlooked. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">It would in effect become the universal translator of 2" with no moving head parts to wear out. </SPAN></div>
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<DIV>On Jun 2, 2012, at 1:20 PM, Don <SPAN id=misspell-7 class=mark>Norwood</SPAN> wrote:</DIV><BR class=yiv1060828315Apple-interchange-newline>
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<DIV>There is sometimes talk about building a "New" Quad <SPAN id=misspell-9 class=mark>VTR</SPAN>. </DIV>
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<DIV>What would the end user want to have the machine do, particularly as mass migration and <SPAN id=misspell-10 class=mark>metadata</SPAN> collection about tape condition and content become more "foreground" in content preservation efforts. </DIV>
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