How else are you going to have any fun with magnetic tape without ripping out the tape head and running it manually over those silky brown strips? Sure, you can change the playback speed on most ...

Tapes were originally open reels but were superseded by a variety ... they must be periodically recopied or the tightly coiled magnetic surfaces may contaminate each other. The major drawback ...

Storage was magnetic tape reels that held 1MB of data at a density of 128 cpi. In 1952, the computer predicted Eisenhower's victory over Stevenson, and, for a while, UNIVAC was synonymous with ...