Talk:Tape head

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This article is inaccurate and incomplete in its failure to include MR tape heads and associated tape cartridges which were first introduced into the mainframe market in 1984 with the IBM 3480. AFAIK, all modern tape drives use MR heads and associated cartridges. Tom94022 (talk) 21:53, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This page only covers tape heads for audio/video equipment. I suggest that a separate article should be written about digital tape heads. Wmjohn6217 (talk) 19:05, 15 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Early computer tape heads were also inductive so rather than coming up with a separater and at least partically redundant article this article should be updated to cover MR tape heads. Tom94022 (talk) 17:03, 16 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No reason this article can't cover record, play and erase heads. ~Kvng (talk) 17:29, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose - this article does cover record, play and erase tape heads while the Recording head article very poorly covers more than just tape heads. There is a Disk read-and-write head article which covers HDD heads but there doesn't appear to be much if anything about floppy disk heads or optical heads so maybe rather than merging the Recording head article into this article, the Recording head article should be improved by linking it to the existing two head articles and adding material about floppy disk heads and optical heads. Tom94022 (talk) 18:09, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I added some material to the recording head article - it still needs a lot of work Tom94022 (talk) 19:20, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge. Recording head isn't really a topic. People don't commonly group together the various types of tape heads, disc cutting lathes, laser engravers, because they are so wildly different. We should make the recording head page into a disambiguation listing valid topics. Binksternet (talk) 20:32, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]