magnetic tape access
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 storage — and magnetic recording are terms from engineering referring to the storage of data on a magnetized medium. Magnetic storage uses different patterns of magnetization in a magnetizable material to store data and is a form of non volatile memory.… …
4magnetic recording — magnetic recorder. the process of recording sound or other data on magnetic tape, wire, etc. [1940 45] * * * ▪ electronics Introduction method of preserving sounds, pictures, and data in the form of electrical signals through the selective… …
5Tape baking — is a process that is used to restore magnetic tapes: audio cassettes and video tapes. It cannot be used with acetate tapes. [cite web| last =Cilleti| first =Eddie| title =If I Knew You Were Coming I d Have Baked A Tape!| url =http://www.tangible… …
6Tape drive — DDS tape drive. Above, from left right: DDS 4 tape (20 GB), 112m Data8 tape (2.5 GB), QIC DC 6250 tape (250 MB), and a 3.5 floppy disk (1.44 MB) A tape drive is a data storage device that reads and performs digital recording, writes data on a… …
7Magnetic stripe card — An example of the reverse side of a typical credit card: Green circle #1 labels the Magnetic stripe A magnetic stripe card is a type of card capable of storing data by modifying the magnetism of tiny iron based magnetic particles on a band of… …
8Access method — An access method is a function of a mainframe operating system that enables access to data on disk, tape or other external devices. They were introduced in 1963 in IBM OS/360 operating system. [http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/journal/rd/255/ausl… …
9tape drive — A computer peripheral device that reads from and writes to magnetic tape. The drive may use tape on an open reel or from an enclosed tape cartridge. Because tape management software must search from the beginning of the tape every time it… …
10Access control — is the ability to permit or deny the use of a particular resource by a particular entity. Access control mechanisms can be used in managing physical resources (such as a movie theater, to which only ticketholders should be admitted), logical… …
