A sequential storage medium used for data collection, backup and archiving. The first electronic storage medium, magnetic tape is made of flexible plastic with one side coated with a ferromagnetic ...

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 Magnetic tape superseded the earlier magnetic wire recorders after World War II because of the ease with which one could splice ...

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London-based Magnetic Scrolls was an early pioneering ... But there was a problem, it turns out that the decaying tapes used a unstable polyurethane-based binder to stick the oxide material ...