Disc Recording: Signal Acquisition and Reduction

Abstract

During the last several years, magnetic recording on plated discs has been developed and now can be applied to instrumentation recording. The disc recorder is available in a fixed head configuration for multichannel parallel recording and in a moving head configuration for one or two event parallel recording with extended time. The disc recorder can capture transient analog signals with bandwidth from DC to 6MHz or more for periods of time from microseconds to 20 seconds or more. The analog signal is stored on the disc after being processed through a proprietary period modulator. The disc recorder allows the user a natural base from which to reduce the analog data to computer understood words. Data reduction equivalent to 100 megabit conversion is possible at data rates compatible with the data device. Thus the disc recorder can capture transient analog signals and will allow simple data reduction.