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Without electronics, would magnetic recording be impossible? Poulsen’s teleg-raphone had no amplifiers. One can even conceive of magnetic recording without electricity, by recording with a vibrating magnet attached to an acoustical diaphragm. Playback could use the varying attraction to a small piece of iron as the magnetized record was drawn past it by a spring-wound motor. However magnetic recording, as we know it, depends strongly on electronics.
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Camras, M. (1988). Electronic Systems. In: Magnetic Recording Handbook. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9468-9_6
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