You can't exactly feed a reel of magnetic tape into a drive ... and play the tape. As the tape plays, the capture device will receive the visual data and transfer it over to your computer.
There was a time in the not-too-distant past when magnetic tape was the primary way of listening to and recording audio. Most of us are familiar with the cassette tape, a four-track system that ...
How else are you going to have any fun with magnetic tape without ripping out the tape head and running it manually over those silky brown strips? Sure, you can change the playback speed on most ...