[cctalk] Re: Age of Tape Formats?

On 3/10/23 00:16, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: Hub size looks small on the 1/2" for later style tapes.  2" tape?  I wonder if that was linear?  Had to have impressive motors. Our Ampex 1/2" 7 track data tapes which ran 200ips to get any sort of bandwidth had huge motors on it.  One of the 3/4ips to 200ips machines with 10 push buttons, similar to the similar chart recorders with up to that speed. FWIW, OT, I visited a small TV production facility in Springfield Mo (got some excess equipment), and they had the Betacam, 3/4" Umatic, and a 1" machine for editing.  Most has gone to digital storage. They had a mirrored 22tb server, and used Mac and the like for production editing.  Most use was for a 3 camera studio, but could mostly do talking head direct to digital. Anyway never saw either a data or video 2" in person. thanks Jim