Sony Corporation

Norio Shindo

Yukio Kubota

Akihiro Uetake

Tomihiro Nakagawa

Yoichirou Senshu

Norifumi Kawashima

Yoshihide Nakamura

A rectangular cartridge that is substantially common in shape and external size with a disc cartridge in which a flexible magnetic disc with a diameter of 3.5 inches is accommodated, wherein at one side of the cartridge there is formed an insertion hole which permits insertion of a substantially rectangular plate-shaped memory and is adapted so that the plate-shaped memory is inserted with the short side as the insertion side. Further, there is formed a memory attaching portion substantially in correspondence with a long side of the plate-shaped memory in a manner continuous to the memory insertion hole and in parallel to the side adjacent to the side where the memory insertion hole is formed. In addition, a group of terminals for connection to terminals of the plate-shaped memory are provided at the terminating portion of the memory attaching portion. The cartridge is intended to be loaded into a recording and/or reproducing apparatus in the state where the plate-shaped memory is attached to the memory attaching portion. Thus, recording and/or reproduction of information signals with respect to the plate-shaped memory are carried out.

Cartridge and memory medium comprising cartridge and plate memory

An apparatus for recording an information signal that includes a signal processor for processing an information signal to be magnetically recorded, n magnetic heads (n is an integer of 2 or more) provided on a rotating drum with a step of about 1/n the width of a magnetic tape and a distributing circuit for selectively supplying the processed information signal to one or more than two of the n magnetic heads, wherein the processed information signal is recorded on one or more than two track areas of the magnetic tape by the magnetic head. Thus, much data can be recorded at a high transmission rate to improve the quality of picture, and also, a high access speed can be achieved.

Recording apparatus

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Norio Shindo