Computing Dictionary
Group Code Recording definition
storage (GCR) A recording method used for 6250 BPI
magnetic tapes.
GCR typically uses a group of five
bits of code to represent four bits of data. The encoding ensures no more than two or three zeros occur in a row, and no more than eight or so ones occur in a row, where zeros represent an absense of magnetic change.
GCR is also used on
Commodore Business Machines diskette drives; the 4040, 8050, 154x, 157x and 158x series of 5.25" and 3.5" low and high density diskette drives used with 8-bit home computers circa 1977 to 1992. It was also supported on
Amiga internal and external drives but only used for reading non-Amiga disks.
Compare
NRZI,
PE.
(2004-06-01)
