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Magnetic tapes can be used for data storage with serial access and limited (time-consuming) random access.
Historically, such systems were used as inexpensive data storage devices on some personal computers, often using inexpensive audio casette tapes as a physical medium. In professional systems, tapes are used for data backup systems. The backup storage tape uses different tapes and tape drives than those so-called "home computers" of the 1980s used, but they share the same fundamental characteristics: primarily serial access with much slower random access (due to the fact that tape must be unwound and rewound in order to reach a specific location), providing a comparatively large and inexpensive storage capacity.
Although tape backups are probably coming out of fashion, they are still in use today, for example for nightly server backups.
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