Categories: Memory

Magnetic Tape

Magnetic tape is a slow secondary memory. It is a strip of plastic coated with a magnetic recording medium. Bits are stored as magnetic spots on the tape along several tracks. Usually seven or nine bits are stored at the same time to form a character together with a parity bit. Read/write heads are mounted on each track so that data can be written and read as a sequence of characters. Information is recorded in blocks.

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