Re: [ARSCLIST] formats: Racal Wordsafe, RSC Tracker

["Richard L. Hess" <arclists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Brandon,

In re-reading my message (since snipped), I wasn't clear. It is my 
understanding that every manufacturer of analog logging recorders 
used a different timecode format. This may not be totally true, but 
it is the "scuttlebutt" that I have heard. The goal, between 
incompatible track formats and proprietary timecode appeared to be 
keeping in the "fold" of users.

Other than Racal, there were the Dictaphone, Metrotech, and Stancil 
(or Stancil-Hoffman) loggers at least, perhaps more. Some reel 
loggers incremented in groups of 8 tracks and others in groups of 10 tracks.

Also, some logger families had playback heads that would read one 
track and were manually adjusted up and down to get to the track, 
further complicating the digital capture process.

Cheers,

Richard

At 05:49 PM 2007-09-12, Brandon Burke wrote:
> With Richard's permission i'm forwarding his off-list response to my
> RCS/Racal post.
>
> Some good information here that - if not of interest to others now -
> should at least
> be available to folks searching the archives sometime down the road..
>
> best,
> Brandon.

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