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8-track cartridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This design was dubbed "8-track" to distinguish it from the original format, which then became a " 4-track cartridge " by The playing time was later doubled by recording four stereo tracks on the tape, although this made each track half as wide, reducing the sound quality. The original cartridge format had four monaural or two pairs of stereo tracks. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/8-track

faq.txt It's true that 8 tracks were only ever popular in North America, i.e., that it's the only place people ever really liked them. Quad 8 track and open-reel are the only true discrete 4-channel sources around...almost everything else is just matrixed into two channels. QUAD-8 cartridges won't properly reproduce on a Stereo-8 player, but QUAD-8 players can reproduce Stereo-8 cartridges. www.bway.net /~abbot/8track/faq.txt

Swamp Rat 8-Track Fanatic Wally Lamb's bestseller, She's Come Undone, mentions 8 Tracks. It was mostly letters from 8-track collectors about things they found, or wanted, or whatever they thought about or did with 8-tracks. It had some really useful articles about the technical side of tracking, but it was mostly stories about 8-tracks and what people remembered about them from way back when. home.earthlink.net /~grrl8trax

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2XL Home Page Sent: Friday, October 24, 1997 10:40 PM 8 track was actually 4 stereo programs on one loop cassette which was This is a testament to how truly crappy 8-track technology is and how much crosstalk exists between tracks. Note from Cyrus: "I've spliced together a few sound 'collages' from various tapes...8-track quality control being what it was back in the late 70's, I guess I lucked out - mine never had crosstalk noise problems." www.pickletreats.com /2XL

8 Track movie,trailer,review,pics,pictures,poster,news,DVD at The Z Review This site has no intention to infringe on the rights of the film owners of 8 Track and intellectual copyright holders of the movies mentioned herein and hold copyright over the movie, characters, merchandise and storyline. Scrubs star Zach Braff will rewrite the Shawn Corridan script 8 Track for Fox 2000. Brendan and Emmett Malloy brothers have been signed up by Fox 2000 to direct a project called 8 Track. www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/e/8track.htm

8-track cartridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The 8-track cartridge is an audio storage magnetic tape cartridge technology, popular from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. The 8-track version simplified the mechanism by rolling the motorized metal capstan in the player against a pinch wheel installed inside the cartridge to pull the tape across the player's read head (in the earlier 4-track Stereo-Pak, the pinch wheel was part of the player and flipped into the cartridge through a hole). The stereo compact audio cassette was much less than half the size of an 8-track cartridge. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/8-track_cartridge   (1262 words)

Cartridge (electronics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The term cartridge tends to be applied loosely to a large range of techniques which conform to this general description. In this case the design was fairly crude, with the entire address and data busses exposed by the port; the cartridge was memory mapped directly into the system's address space. The advantage of cartridges over other approaches such as loading software from other media is that the software is instantly available, with no loading time, and it is held in a very robust and hence damage-resistant form. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cartridge_(electronics)   (668 words)

Evergreen Speedway, The Superspeedway of the West, The Northwest Center of NASCAR Racing Much of the track's success can be attributed to its unique design, which combines a 5/8-mile paved outer oval with a 3/8-mile inner oval,a 1/5-mile oval, a 1/8-mile drag strip, and a figure-eight track. Nestled in the expansive Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe WA the stately race track has vigorous attendance and support from the surrounding community. LOCATED A MERE 25 MILES northeast of Seattle, Evergreen Speedway is a majestic racing facility with a robust history dating back to its creation in 1954. www.evergreenspeedway.com   (668 words)

Transfer your LP collection (also 78, 45, 8-track, reel-to-reel, cassette) to CD's. Sound restoration included. Clean up the sound of your old recordings and transfer them to CD. Audio restoration specialists. as to the progress of your order with our own LP2CD Order Tracking System. Cristian Coban, Ph.D. Please let me relieve you of any "risk taking" when ordering from us. lp2cd.com   (668 words)

Welcome to the 8-track landfillt It has nothing to do with 8 tracks but for a retrospective of my favorite tiki hotel and watering hole- The Waikikian Hotel and Tahitian Lanai. Click on a tape and we'll be on our way members.tripod.com /gregg-n   (668 words)

Pink Floyd Archives-U.S. 8 Track Tapes Release Information: The two Syd Barrett albums, with song order rearranged to fit on 8 track. Slipcase is generic MGM Records / Ampex 8 Track cover with a release specific wraparound sticker on it. Program 4 - Kaleidoscope-Mickey's Tune, John Fahey-Dance of Death, Pink Floyd-Come In Number 51, Your Time Is Up ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/PFArchives/DUS8T.htm   (668 words)

faq.txt Tape jamming and mechanical problems were a major "kiss of death" to consumer acceptance of 8-track....and these problems were entirely avoidable if the tape makers had maintained consistent design standards and quality control. Since the capstan's movement regulates tape speed and movement, the somewhat tenuous grip that the capstan/pinch roller combination has on the tape sometimes leads to tape slowdowns, even if the motor is moving at a correct and steady speed (which it often isn't). Tapes that have been sitting for a long time, especially in shrink wrap, can be worse than old, well used tapes because of the heat factor. www.bway.net /~abbot/8track/faq.txt   (9982 words)

A History of Prerecorded Audio The tracks themselves (the portion of the magnetic tape holding the information) were only half as wide as those on 8-tracks, and cassette tape moved at half of 8-track's speed, combining for a very low perceived potential for sound reproduction. Four-track and 8-track cartridges coexisted on the marketplace for some time, with the 8-track format eventually defeating by attrition its look-alike cousin (before in turn being overtaken by the cassette format). In the 8-track system, the pinch roller was housed in the cartridge itself. www.bway.net /~abbot/8track/history.html   (2279 words)

HOCO Enterprises - 8 Track History This means that the slightest misalignment of the tape head (or for that matter of the tape itself within the cartridge) in an 8-track system means that you hear shadows of other tracks bleeding into the program which is playing. Lear's 8-track was by no means the first such system, in fact, the Lear cartridge is in most respects identical to the 4-track tape which came before it. The main mechanical difference between the two systems is that in a 4-track, the pinch roller is part of the player, whereas in an 8-track, the pinch roller is part of the tape cartridge. www.hocoenterprises.com /recs/8TrackHistory.html   (419 words)

Vintage Audio and Radio Four 'stereo' audio tracks (so a total of 8 tracks) were recorded across the 0.25" magnetic tape. Click on the 8-Track to download an audio sample (162KB) stereo play time of 1 minute and 06 sec. The track selection was achieved by moving the tape head across the tape by means of a magnetic solenoid selecting each twin track in turn. www.audiouk.com /8track.htm   (188 words)

Preserving your 8-track tapes - how to Counting the tracks as numbers 1 to 8 from top to bottom the pairs are: 1 and 5, 2 and 6, 3 and 7 and 4 and 8. Instead of two spools with tape feeding from one to the other, however, in the 8-track cartridge system a continuous loop of tape is wound on a single passive spool, feeding out from the centre and returning to the periphery. From a marketing point of view, thanks largely to its promotion by the auto industry, the 8-track cartridge was by far the most successful new audio format of the mid-1960s and early 1970s. presrec.com /8track.htm   (559 words)

Beatles 8-Track Tapes The tape is divided in along its length into 8 channels (tracks)- allowing 4 "channels" of stereo music. (All tracks from YandT album are in true stereo) The 1/4 inch tape was housed in a plastic cartridge, running in an endless loop at 3¾ inches per second. www.rarebeatles.com /8track/eghtrk.htm   (806 words)

Apple and Solo 8 Track Tapes By 1982, the major record companies decided that the eight track tape was too expensive to produce, given the amount of revenue then being generated. The eight track format gained dominance in the late 1960's, and by the early 1970's even the LP was being rivaled. This eight track is listed separately because not only does the cover feature the 1370 address, but also the song selections have been reordered so that they appear in the same order as on the LP. www.friktech.com /btls/tapes/8tks2.htm   (2381 words)

The Cochineal On some machines, recorded tracks could be selected with a switch labeled “A” or “B”, with the “A” side being stereo (or dual mono) tracks one and three, and “B” occupying tracks two and four. Similar in construction to the 8-track cartridges, they also incorporated an internal pressure roller, but the case was much smaller – approximately 3” by 2 7/8” and 9/16” thick. The RCA cartridge was large, 7 _ inches by 5 inches by _-inch thick using _-inch tape at a selectable rate of 3.75 ips or 1 7/8 ips for total recording times of 30 or 60 minutes respectively. www.ischool.utexas.edu /~cochinea/html-paper/a-crews-03-magnetic-media.html   (3178 words)

Untitled Document The spine reads SENTRY 8-Track Recording Cartridge with a very large and prominent 80 and under it, very small, the word minutes and another oval with the British marching soldier. There is no label on the back but the naked beige plastic has a beautifully embedded impression that reads "STEREO CARTRIDGE SA-80 Made in Japan." It leaves a very good impression when turning it over. The cartridge has a black case with a brightly colored pattern of 2 converging circles filled with brightly colored bands similiar to a target or two targets, one overlapping the other. home.earthlink.net /~kenmontgomery/track.html   (1487 words)

The 8-track cartridge The 8 Track cartridge is an enclosed magnetic tape format. www.collectorshelp.com /popups/8tr.htm   (66 words)

Vintage Recording Formats - audiotools.com. William Lear who was one of the founders of Motorola and later founded Learjet came out with a minimally modified version of Muntz's cart, that had 8 tracks rather than 4 and had minor mechanical changes to the cartridge itself in order to circumvent the Fidelipack patents. Odd item this, called a Cartridge by RCA at the time but is actually a a 6,3mm 4 track tape Cassette that can only be described as an oversize Compact Cassette, remarkably similar in fact. The recording format was 4+1 tracks, 2 on each side for audio like a cassette or a 4 track open reel with a thin extra track "for future use", probably intended for recording of timecode or automation information. audiotools.com /oldf.html   (1991 words)

Steve Moss' Cheap Homepage - 8-Track Memories The 2600 cartridges were on the shelf right next to the 8-tracks, and they looked like a huge collection, together. Even back then his parents didn't play them anymore, but my family never had an 8-track system, so that was the first time I'd seen any. A few days later, on my lunch break, I vowed I'd go to the local Goodwill (which happened to be right across the road from the Media Play where I worked) to see what cartridges I might find to test whether my deck worked. www.memlo.net /pages/8track.htm   (917 words)

The 8-Track Hour The 8-track cartridge contains a length of 1/4 inch tape which runs in a continuous loop at 3 and 3/4 inches per second. The tape, pinched between the roller and the capstan (which is spun by the player's motor), is thus moved across the head. The tape is wound around a hub in the middle of the cartridge. www.isu.edu /kisufm/8track.htm   (382 words)

Beatles 8 track tapes, Beatles on 8 tracks, Beatles cassettes This is the vintage original 8 track cartridge from Capitol Records released in 1980. This is the original Capitol 8 track tape with twelve of The Beatles early releases. This is the ultra rare 8 track cartridge of the Two Virgins recordings released byApple Records in 1968. www.beatlecollectors.com /pages/29   (1333 words)

Web Generation- Eight Track History He specified a head with much thinner "pole-pieces" and a new spacing that would allow two tracks (or one stereo program) to be picked off a quarter-inch tape that held a total of 8-tracks. Eash's cartridge, although complex internally and prone to sudden failure, was nonetheless the basis of dozens of commercial applications of the endless loop, two of which were particularly successful. The Orrtronic cartridge had a somewhat different tape path that reduced strain on the tape and allowed better head-to-tape contact, and was somewhat more compact to boot. www.wgeneration.com /70f4.html   (1979 words)

J-Track 3D If you cannot access this page, you might want to try the following pages to track the most popular satellites: science.nasa.gov /Realtime/JTrack/3D/JTrack3D.html   (1979 words)

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