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What is magnetic tape used for?
It is a data storage medium
What is a magnetic tape?
A magnetic tape is a secondary storage media used to access data in a sequential way
What is the access method of magnetic tape?
It's sequential (or serial) access. The records are written one after the other (as if in a line or queue) and in order to find one the tape must be fast-forwarded or rewound as appropriate until the beginning of the record is found.
What memory medium is not used as a main memory system?
magnetic tape
Disk drives are random-access devices while tape drives are serial What does this mean?
Disk Drives have Read/Write Heads on a swinging moveable access arm that moves the head out to the area to be recorded/read-from. Random access device. Much faster Tape drives have fixed position heads and the tape medium has to move past the head in order to transfer/record data from the head to the medium. Sequential access is slower.
What is magnetic data storage?
A magnetic storage device is a device that uses a magnetic head to read and write data to and from a magnetizable medium. The medium can be as basic as a plastic tape that is coated with fine particles of a metal, such as is found in audio recording and tape storage devices.
What was full name RAM?
Random Access Memory, as verses Sequential Access Memory (delay lines, magnetic tape, magnetic drum, magnetic disk, etc.)
What is most papular sequential access storage device?
magnetic tape
Which storage media provides sequential access only?
magnetic tape
What storage requires sequential access of data?
magnetic disc
What is the main feature of each computer generation?
vacuum tubes, punch cards, magnetic tape, large sizetransistors, punch cards, magnetic tape, harddisc, medium sizeintegrated circuits, punch cards, magnetic tape, harddisk, medium or small sizemicroprocessors, interactive user interface, harddisk, floppy disc, very small size
Write a short note on magnetic disk?
Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic recording, made of a thin magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic. It was developed in Germany, based on magnetic wire recording. Devices that record and play back audio and video using magnetic tape are tape recorders and video tape recorders. A device that stores computer data on magnetic tape is a tape drive.
