[QuadList] 1" transverse scan NHK's research lab developed a Quad machine...

[Chill315 at aol.com]

Very interesting product.  The thing is now you can buy a terabyte for  
about $50.  So that would replace the capacity of three of the  cassettes.  
 
Was this product used for archival or as an on-line storage unit.  The  
presentation talks about the airborne product line and the fixed product  line. 
 Sounds like a military product.
 
Now here is an interesting question, How does NSA or the CIA or other  
agency archive all the data that they have?  
 
Chris Hill
WA8IGN
 
 
In a message dated 2/28/2011 3:10:40 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
ted at quadvideotapegroup.com writes:

The ASACA 1" Quad had two models, the last introed in 1977. 


It was not the only transverse quad machine and the application that  
succeeded was a bit different.


Ampex developed a 1" transverse Quad cassette system, DCRSi, which writes  
digital info to tape.


In 1983, Ampex introduced the DCRS digital cassette  recorder, offering 
compact cassette storage with the equivalent of 16 digital  or 8 DDR 
instrumentation reels on one cassette. Also, _Partial-response  maximum-likelihood_ 
(http://www.digparty.com/w/index.php?title=Partial-response_maximum-likelihood&
action=edit&redlink=1)  (_PRML_ (http://www.digparty.com/wiki/PRML) ) data 
decoding technology  has its first use in Ampex's _DCRsi_ 
(http://www.digparty.com/w/index.php?title=DCRsi&action=edit&redlink=1) ™  recorders. This 
technology is now commonly used in high performance computer  disk drives and 
other high density magnetic data storage devices.


Here's a link to a 1996 Ampex presentation about DCRSi and an Ampex 19mm  
helical cassette  digital data product that uses AST:
_http://www.thic.org/pdf/Oct96/ampex.twood.pdf_ 
(http://www.thic.org/pdf/Oct96/ampex.twood.pdf) 


On page 19, Ampex promoted the Transverse scanning transport topology as:
 
• Simple and  compact tape path
• Superior  performance in hostile environments
• “Azimuth”  recording
• >3,000 hour  head life - typical



On the next page, it advises there are other benefits. and notes a pilot  
tone servo for active tracking.


There's an airborne DCRSi recorder on ebay with quite a few  pictures:
_http://cgi.ebay.com/AMPEX-TRANSPORT-MDL-TAPE-MACHINE-CAT-1301746-01-1-DCRSI
-/310298195589?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item483f36b685#ht_830wt_907_ 
(http://cgi.ebay.com/AMPEX-TRANSPORT-MDL-TAPE-MACHINE-CAT-1301746-01-1-DCRSI-/310
298195589?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item483f36b685#ht_830wt_907) 




On Feb 27, 2011, at 6:33 PM, Don Norwood wrote:



Hi Wayne:
 
I suspect you are thinking about the ASACA machine.......
 
<ASACA 1inch Quad.jpg>
 
Don Norwood
Digitrak Communications, Inc.
_www.digitrakcom.com_ (http://www.digitrakcom.com/) 

----- Original Message -----
From: _Wayne  Watson_ (mailto:wayne.watson at sait.ca) 


This post jogged  a very foggy old memory. In about 1973 or 74 at NAB was 
there a one inch  quad shown by an Asian manufacturer? My recall was that it 
had a head that  looked like a very small Ampex quad. When I went by the 
both I was  surprised to see it, however there was nobody there at that  time 
that could speak enough English to tell anything about  it.
Was there ever such a recorder  was it a bad dream?
 
 
 
Wayne  Watson



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