Examples of magnetic tape in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The music industry largely stopped cutting performances directly to disc 70 years ago, with the advent of magnetic tape. — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 June 2022 The prior two articles focused on storage devices (media) including magnetic tape, HDDs and SSDs. — Tom Coughlin, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022 Oelze bought an Echoplex — a machine that uses magnetic tape to add delay to a sound — and ran Auldridge’s Dobro guitar through it. — Washington Post, 3 May 2022 Early devices yielded only limited information and were far less shock-resistant than modern versions, which use solid-state memory devices to record the data rather than the magnetic tape spools used on old versions. — Benedikt Kammel, Bloomberg.com, 23 Mar. 2022 Beyond taking up loads of space, your old VHS recordings rely on magnetic tape that is known to deteriorate over time. — Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2021 Just a few years prior, magnetic tape data was read mechanically. — Ryan Larry, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2022 Its information density far exceeds what’s possible with storage media like magnetic tape or optical discs. — Paul Overberg And, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2021 The first blog focused on developments and projections for magnetic recording (HDDs and magnetic tape). — Tom Coughlin, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2021 See More

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“Magnetic tape.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/magnetic%20tape. Accessed 27 Jun. 2022.

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