The first electronic storage medium, magnetic tape is made of flexible plastic with one side coated with a ferromagnetic material. The data are recorded as binary digits (bits) in the form of ...

A medium for holding information (data, voice, video, etc.), such as tape and disk. The medium can be erased and reused over and over again. In the digital world, information is recorded by ...

Dimensions listed are in mils. Digital recording also uses magnetic tape as a storage medium, such as digital audio tape (DAT), but these smaller formats cannot be spliced. The tape speed for the DAT ...