At 06:08 PM 4/19/2002 +0000, Pete Turnbull wrote:
Well, if you're going to go into digital signal
processing, why not just
use a 9-track head, and analyse the data from adjacent tracks to recombine
into 7 tracks? ;-)
Or for that matter, the seven "heads" could be displaced
along the path of the tape, and the software would handle
the realignment of the time domain. Or you could read
less than 7 tracks at a time, and reassemble in software.
- John