The Art of Data Recording

Data recording is becoming increasingly common, from credit-card strips, bar codes, personal computers and compact discs to high definition video recorders. Security, national defence, banking, entertainment, manufacturing and transport systems are now critically dependent on computation and data recording. Much of this book is devoted to techniques which are needed to increase performance. The book is aimed at personnel in manufacturers, R&D departments, computer scientists, hi-fi and communications specialists, students on electronics and computing courses, and disk-drive engineers.