magnetic tape

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Inside the cassette is a kilometre of magnetic tape, capable of storing 18 terabytes of data.

From BBC

At that time, he had to cut up strips of magnetic tape and then tape them back together.

From New York Times

Scientists communicated with these room-size machines by feeding mathematical and textual instructions into vacuum tubes via typewriters, magnetic tape and punched cards.

From New York Times

These particular cylinders were previously available to the library in the 1980s, when they were transferred to magnetic tape and released as part of a six-volume LP set compiling the Mapleson recordings.

From New York Times

It hasn’t helped that the agency has such outdated information technology systems that it sometimes uses a 1960s-era computer language for data processing and stores information on magnetic tapes in warehouses.

From Los Angeles Times