Magnetic Tape - CHM Revolution

Magnetic TapeMagnetic tape began as a medium for audio recordings in the 1930s. In 1951—six years before the first magnetic disks—UNIVAC introduced tape drives for computers.Tape was a storage mainstay for many years and still survives, thanks to its low cost, portability, unlimited offline capacity, and standardized formats that make tapes interchangeable.

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1951-1968 Early Computer Magnetic Tape Units- History IBM, UNIVAC, RCA, AMPEX - Educational Video

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