Magnetic tape
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Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic storage made of a thin, magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic film. It was developed in Germany in 1928, based on the earlier magnetic wire rec
7-inch reel of ¼-inch-wide audio recording tape, typical of consumer use in the 1950s–70s
Compact Cassette
A VHS helical scan head drum. Helical and transverse scans made it possible to increase the data bandwidth to the necessary point for recording video on tapes, and not just audio.
Small open reel of 9-track tape
Magnetic storage
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Magnetic storage or magnetic recording is the storage of data on a magnetized medium. Magnetic storage uses different patterns of magnetisation in a magnetizable material to store data and is a form o
Magnetic tape
…Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic storage made of a thin, magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic film. It was developed in Germany in 1928, based on the earlier magnetic wire…
The programmable calculators of the HP-41-series (from 1979) could store data via an external magnetic tape storage device on Mini-Cassettes.
Hard drives use magnetic memory to store giga- and terabytes of data in computers.