Apparatus for recording digital data of various kinds on a slant track of a recording tape

Claim 1

Apparatus for recording digital data of various kinds on a slant track of a recording medium by means of a rotary head, said digital data being sampled at a sampling frequency that is adjustable in accordance with the nature of said digital data; said apparatus comprising: means for generating a system clock signal; means for generating an input clock signal which is synchronized with said sampling frequency; memory means for writing said digital data in response to said input clock signal and reading said digital data therefrom in response to said system clock signal; and means for converting said digital data read out from said memory means into a data block in which said data is repeated as necessary so wherein said memory means further comprises means for generating a read address and a write address and means for detecting an amount of digital data which is stored in said memory means during one scan of said rotary head, and said generating means cyclically generates the read address to said memory means to repeatedly record said digital data on the track when said detecting means detects that said digital data is not written in the whole of said memory means, that said data block can be recorded coextensively with one scan of said rotary head.