MAGNETIC TAPE RECORDERS - VIR History

SUPPLY REEL
Chapter 6-MAGNETIC TAPE RECORDERS
LOWER CAPSTAN
LOWER GUlDE
transport will stop automatically at the end of
the reel.)
FORWARD MODE.-If reproduce is desired
from the tape at some distance from the
beginning, the forward mode provides fast drive
to that point as follows:
(1) Press the FORWARD selector. The
FORWARD selector illuminates, and the
transport moves the tape in the forward
direction at a fast rate. The pressure rollers are
not engaged, and no usable information is
reproduced.
(2) When the desired point on the tape is
reached, press the STOP selector. If the
reproduce mode is desired at this point, press
RUN as previously described.
REWIND MODE.-When the end of the run
or record program is reached, the tape may be
rapidly transferred back to the supply reel as
follows:
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(1) Press the REWIND selector. The tape
moves in the reverse direction at a fast rate. The
REWIND selector illuminates.
Figure 68.-ANIGSH-19 tape loading.
e. Hold the end of the tape to the take-up
(2) If stop is desired before the tape runs
completely off the take-up reel, press the STOP
selector.
reel and rotate the reel counterclockwise until RECORD MODE.-With a freshly degaussed,
the tape is secured to the take-up reel. clean reel of tape loaded on the supply reel hub,
RUN MODE.-The an mode is used for
establish the record mode as follows:
reproducing a prerecorded tape as fouows: (1) Press and hold the RECORD selector,
With a prerecorded tape loaded On the
press the RUN The
move tape in the forward
direction with the pressure roUers engaged. The
RUN selector should illuminate.
then press the RUN selector. (If the RUN
selector is pressed before the RECORD selector,
the record mode will not engage.) The tape will
run forward at the selected speed with the
pressure rollers engaged, The RECORD and
RUN selectors should illuminate.
NOTE: A reproduce amplifier plug-in circuit
card must be installed in the Upper or Lower
Data Amplifier asseniblies in order toreproduce
a prerecorded tape. One plug-in circuit card is
NOTE: The Record plug-in circuit cards
have to be installed in the Data Amplifier
Assemblies for each individual track being
needed for each individual track being recorded.
reproduced.
(2) The record mode may be cancelled by
(2) If a stop conclition is desired on the pressing any transport control selector
transport, press the STOP selector. (The (FORWARD, REWIND, or STOP).