There was a time in the not-too-distant past when magnetic tape was the primary way of listening to and recording audio. Most of us are familiar with the cassette tape, a four-track system that ...

Discover the resurgence of audio cassettes and why they're making a comeback. From nostalgic sound to collectible designs, ...

To achieve this, each C60 cassette housed approximately 281.25 feet (85.73 meters) of magnetic tape, which measured 1/8 inch (3.81 mm) wide and 16 µm (0.0006 inches or 0.0159 mm) thick.

When it comes to cheap but massive data storage, magnetic tape is still the favoured choice of data centre managers. But its very slow read speed isn't great if you need to grab data off it quickly.

The first electronic storage medium, magnetic tape is made of flexible plastic with one side coated with a ferromagnetic material. The data are recorded as binary digits (bits) in the form of ...

The tape is coated with an oxide EMULSION, which when exposed to the variations of the magnetic field at the recording head of a TAPE RECORDER, is arranged in similar variations, each particle of the ...