magnetic tape
noun
: a thin ribbon (as of plastic) coated with a magnetic material on which information (such as sound or television images) may be stored
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Its playback fidelity was superior to over-the-air programming and to magnetic tape.
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Allison Marsh, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Sep. 2025
The power of the human voice, even transcribed imperfectly onto magnetic tape and played over a tinny speaker, was life-changing.
—Adam Verner
september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Chuck Sobey of Channel Science and the organizer of the Monday training sessions before the regular FMS sessions, has been pursuing the development of a multi-format, minimal-contact legacy tape reader that can recover data from old magnetic tapes.
—Thomas Coughlin, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Active data lives on SSDs with colder data kept on hard disk drives, HDDs, and magnetic tape.
—Thomas Coughlin, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
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Allison Marsh, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Sep. 2025
The power of the human voice, even transcribed imperfectly onto magnetic tape and played over a tinny speaker, was life-changing.
—Adam Verner
september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Chuck Sobey of Channel Science and the organizer of the Monday training sessions before the regular FMS sessions, has been pursuing the development of a multi-format, minimal-contact legacy tape reader that can recover data from old magnetic tapes.
—Thomas Coughlin, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Active data lives on SSDs with colder data kept on hard disk drives, HDDs, and magnetic tape.
—Thomas Coughlin, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
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“Magnetic tape.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/magnetic%20tape. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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