London-based Magnetic Scrolls was an early pioneering ... First, he needed to recover a copy of the original source code from the backup tapes. But there was a problem, it turns out that the ...

The first electronic storage medium, magnetic tape is made of flexible plastic ... Tape has always been more economical than disks for archival data; however, disk capacities have increased ...

But that magnetic tape was prone to deterioration over time ... this is making me realize I should probably come up with a better archival plan for my own recordings-ya know, just in case anyone ...

When it comes to cheap but massive data storage, magnetic tape is still the favoured choice ... to be accessed occasionally or just kept for archival purposes. The way the setup works is that ...

The tape is coated with an oxide EMULSION, which when exposed to the variations of the magnetic field at the recording head of a TAPE RECORDER, is arranged in similar variations, each particle of the ...

Uncoated tape used to separate other sections of tape is called leader. Magnetic tape superseded the earlier magnetic wire recorders after World War II because of the ease with which one could splice ...

The mechanism that reads and writes magnetic tape as it moves past. Quality tape recorders have three heads: play (read), record (write) and erase. Many consumer products have only two ...