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I’m All Wound Up: A Gallery of Classic Magnetic Tape Drives and Reels

By Adrian Covert on March 27, 2009 at 3:27 PM

SSD, Smesh Smesh Dee. Here’s my visual tribute to magnetic tape, the storage medium that can be measured in MBytes, minutes and metres.


From Wikipedia:

Magnetic tape revolutionised the broadcast and recording industries. In an age when all radio (and later television) was live, it allowed programming to be prerecorded. In a time when gramophone records were recorded in one take, it allowed recordings to be created in multiple stages and easily mixed and edited with a minimal loss in quality between generations. It is also one of the key enabling technologies in the development of modern computers. Magnetic tape allowed massive amounts of data to be stored in computers for long periods of time and rapidly accessed when needed.

[Top Photo Courtesy of Phil Aaronson]

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