magnetic tape data
1Magnetic tape data storage — uses digital recording on to magnetic tape to store digital information. Modern magnetic tape is most commonly packaged in cartridges and cassettes. The device that performs actual writing or reading of data is a tape drive. Autoloaders and tape… …
2Magnetic tape — 7 inch reel of ¼ inch wide audio recording tape, typical of consumer use in the 1950s–70s. Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic recording, made of a thin magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic. It was developed in Germany,… …
3magnetic tape — n. A long thin plastic ribbon coated with iron oxide or other ferromagnetic material, used to record audio or video signals digital data in the form of small magnetized regions on the tape; it is a common digital data storage medium for computer… …
4magnetic tape — ► NOUN ▪ tape used in recording sound, pictures, or computer data …
5Magnetic tape sound recording — Klaudia Wilde from the German WDR radio archive with a broadcast tape from 1990 The use of magnetic tape for sound recording originated around 1930. Magnetizable tape revolutionized both the radio broadcast and music recording industries. It did… …
6magnetic tape — A tape impregnated or coated with magnetic material upon which data can be stored by magnetic recording …
7magnetic tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data,… …
8magnetic tape — noun A type of (usually) acrylic tape with a fine coating of magnetically sensitive material on one side, used for recording audio and other data …
9magnetic tape — noun tape used in recording sound, pictures, or computer data …
10magnetic tape — magnet′ic tape′ n. hfi a ribbon of material coated with a substance sensitive to electromagnetic impulses and used to record sound, images, or data Compare audiotape videotape • Etymology: 1935–40 …
