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Originally Posted by Molten
It said that recording can be both an ego boost and humbling.
Jason
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Many years ago I had the good fortune to meet the father of magnetic recording, Marvin Camras. He started out by devising a method to record his cousin singing opera in the bathroom. His cousin thought himself a great singer but didn't know how he sounded to others. Marvin devised a method of recording on a wire stretched between two trees in the back yard. The recording head was attached to pulleys that rolled down the wire from one tree to another. From that beginning, Marvin went on to develop magnetic recording receiving more than 500 patents over his lifetime. His patents covered magnetic recording on floppy disc and hard drives. He also wrote a paper in 1962 titled "Magnetic recording and reproduction - 2012 A.D.". In this paper he predicted mass storage of audio and video in devices no bigger than a pack of cards with no moving parts.