THE Kaneka group of companies in Malaysia-which produces specialised petrochemical and magnetic wires-plans a further investment of RM400 million to increase their current production capacities in the near future.
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"' Wire recording "'or "'magnetic wire recording "'was the first early magnetic recording technology, an analog type of audio storage in which a magnetic recording is made on thin steel wire.
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Magnetic tape was invented for recording sound by Fritz Pfleumer in 1928 in Germany, based on the invention of magnetic wire recording by Oberlin Smith in 1888 and Valdemar Poulsen in 1898.
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The basis for Camras'work in magnetic recording was formed as a student in the late 1930s, when he built a magnetic wire recorder for a cousin who was an aspiring opera singer.
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Typical programs transformed missile tracking data from missile tests, recorded to rolls of seven-hole Flexowriter punched paper tape, cartridges of magnetic wire, and reels of magnetic tape, into missile trajectory and performance data.
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This period also saw several other historic developments including the introduction of the first practical magnetic sound recording system, the magnetic wire recorder, which was based on the work of Danish inventor Valdemar Poulsen.
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The system could output to Flexowriter paper tape ( at a rate of 1 word / second ), magnetic wire ( 20 words / second ), or paper tape ( 180 characters / second ).
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Prior to the development of magnetic tape, magnetic wire recorders had successfully demonstrated the concept of magnetic recording, but they never offered audio quality comparable to the other recording and broadcast standards of the time.
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Magnetic wire recording was replaced by magnetic tape recording, but devices employing one or the other of these media had been more or less simultaneously under development for many years before either came into widespread use.
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The system was fixed-point binary and used 45 Flexowriter paper tape ( at a rate of 1 word / second ), magnetic wire ( 40 words / second ), Raytheon magnetic tape ( 250 words / second ), and paper tape ( 150 characters / second ).
