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 ...

As you might expect, the computer was made to be highly reliable and monitored several safety systems and special isolated software. There are plenty of Soviet teletypes, magnetic tape drives ...

The mechanism that reads and writes magnetic tape as it moves past. Quality tape recorders have three heads: play (read), record (write) and erase. Many consumer products have only two ...