• Magnetic-tape data storage is a system for storing digital information on magnetic tape using digital recording. Tape was an important medium for primary...
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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...
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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...
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    A tape drive is a data storage device that reads and writes data on a magnetic tape. Magnetic-tape data storage is typically used for offline, archival...
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    Data storage is the recording (storing) of information (data) in a storage medium. Handwriting, phonographic recording, magnetic tape, and optical discs...
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    Linear Tape-Open (LTO), also known as the LTO Ultrium format, is a magnetic tape data storage technology used for backup, data archiving, and data transfer...
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  • mostly obsolete, paper was once an important form of computer data storage as both paper tape and punch cards were a common staple of working with computers...
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  • formats Tape drive, a data storage device that reads and writes data on a magnetic tape, many of which are cassette-based References "cassette-tape". Your...
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  • because, unlike marking only on the surface of a 2D piece of paper or magnetic tape, this method of encoding uses two optical dimensions and three spatial...
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    9-track tape is a format for magnetic-tape data storage, introduced with the IBM System/360 in 1964. The 1⁄2 inch (12.7 mm) wide magnetic tape media and...
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    A tape cartridge, also known as a tape cart, is a storage medium used for audio recording, video recording, or data storage that includes a magnetic tape...
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  • Data Storage Technology (DST) is a 19 mm (0.75 in) wide magnetic tape data storage format created by Ampex in 1992. The DST format was also made by Ampex...
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    IBM 3592 (category Computer storage tape media)
    The IBM 3592 is a series of enterprise-class tape drives and corresponding magnetic tape data storage media formats developed by IBM. The first drive,...
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  • Digital Data Storage (DDS) is a computer data storage technology that is based upon the Digital Audio Tape (DAT) format that was developed during the 1980s...
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    Optical storage refers to a class of data storage systems that use light to read or write data to an underlying optical media. Although a number of optical...
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  • such as hard disk drives, optical discs and magnetic tape drives. While it would be ideal to have all data available on high-speed devices all the time...
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    Digital Linear Tape (DLT; previously called CompacTape) is a magnetic-tape data storage technology developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from...
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  • Storage Technology Corporation (marketing as 'StorageTek' [one word]) created several magnetic tape data storage formats. These are commonly used with...
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    Commodore Datasette (category Tape-based computer storage)
    portmanteau of data and cassette), is Commodore's dedicated magnetic-tape data storage device. Using compact cassettes as the storage medium, it provides...
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    magnetic tape for storage. In its present-day form, it records a fluctuating signal by moving the tape across a tape head that polarizes the magnetic...
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  • computer data storage devices (e.g. disk storage, hard disk drives, optical discs, floppy disks, and magnetic tape), and early computer storage methods...
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    DECtape, originally called Microtape, is a magnetic tape data storage medium used with many Digital Equipment Corporation computers, including the PDP-6...
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  • described as mass storage include tape libraries, RAID systems, and a variety of computer drives such as hard disk drives (HDDs), magnetic tape drives, magneto-optical...
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    IBM 7-track (redirect from 7-track tape)
    IBM's first magnetic-tape data storage devices, introduced in 1952, use what is now generally known as 7-track tape. The magnetic tape is 1⁄2 inch (13 mm)...
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    regenerative medicine, stem cells, biologics manufacturing, magnetic tape data storage, optical films for flat-panel displays, optical devices, photocopiers...
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  • developed by IBM, was adopted by the LTO Consortium in 2010. Magnetic tape data storage has been used for over 50 years, but typically did not hold file...
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    Cassette, also known as cassette tape, refers to a small plastic unit containing a length of magnetic tape on two reels. The design was created to replicate...
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    use SIMD instructions that operate on vectors of data. In some media such as magnetic-tape data storage, accessing sequentially is orders of magnitude faster...
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  • OnStream (redirect from OnStream Data)
    Inc., was a Dutch computer hardware company that manufactured magnetic tape data storage products. The company was a spin-off of Philips established in...
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  • plastic film Magnetic tape data storage, uses digital recording on magnetic tape to store digital information Punched tape or paper tape, a long strip...
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