Linear magnetic storage hardware, rolled onto a reel or cassette.
A storage medium that consists of a long band of magnetic material wound around a couple of reels. Tapes can hold a lot of information, but are typically...
A tape is used to back up data. DO THIS! A tape looks like an audio cassette. Tapes come in different sizes and different standards.
1. Short for magnetic recording tape. A long plastic strip with a material glued to it that's able to have its magnetic polarity changed and later read, for archival of audio signals. Differs from disks only in the phsical shape of being a strip. Can be totally housed in a shell (called a cassette), or on an open reel. 2. Electrical tape, duct tape, gaffers tape, masking tape, drafting tape, scotch tape, strapping tape, box tape etc.
strip of paper sometimes reinforced with material used to form the joint of the container. Can be used also for closure of the top and bottom flaps of the container. Common sizes of tape are 2" and 3" widths.
A flexible plastic wound strip coated with magnetic oxide and used for storing electronic data.
The medium whereby images and sound are recorded on plastic through an electronic process. As a verb, "to tape" means the production process which uses video or audio hardware to record images and/ or sound on tape.
A popular term for magnetic recording tape. A narrow, thin plastic tape with a fine coating of magnetically active particles capable of holding a magnetic charge for recording audio and digital data.
Strips of gummed paper or cloth sometimes placed across the grain of large veneer sheets to facilitate handling and sometimes used to hold the edges of veneer together at the joint prior to gluing.
a recording made on magnetic tape; "the several recordings were combined on a master tape"
the finishing line for a foot race; "he broke the tape in record time"
memory device consisting of a long thin plastic strip coated with iron oxide; used to record audio or video signals or to store computer information; "he took along a dozen tapes to record the interview"
register electronically; "They recorded her singing"
a completely sequential method that is time consuming and requires you to often listen to material you know in order to get to the material you need to study
a magnetically-driven cassette that stores audio and video
A data storage medium consisting of a magnetisable oxide coating on a thin plastic strip, commonly used for backup and archiving. LiveVault Online Backup Service writes a copy of the backed up data to tape.
A magnetic storage media. Standard widths are 8mm, 1/8-inch, 1/4-inch, 1/2-inch, 4mm DAT (Digital Audio Tape), and DLT (Digital Linear Tape) in either rolls or cassettes.
back-up A popular and inexpensive way to back up Web sites. Contents of a site are periodically stored that looks similar to a cassette. Some cassettes can store several gigabytes.
output normally the PCM output of a bit sync that tracks the PCM input but optionally with a different code. The function generating a tape output is sometimes called a "code converter." Normally intended to be used to record a better quality signal on an instrumentation tape.
A sequential read/write media for storing large capacities of data. Typically used for archiving and disaster recovery.
Sequential mass storage device.
A recording medium that consists of a magnetic coating on a long plastic backing strip.
Magnetic tape, in cartridge or reel. The tape has a magnetic surface where data may be stored. Tape is often used as backup media. Examples are: DAT, Streamer tape, DLT.
Short for the term Magnetic Tape (recording tape consisting of a plastic strip to which magnetic materials, usually iron oxide particles, are adhered so that the magnetic impulses put out by the record head are stored).
a magnetically coated material used for the storage of computer, video, or audio data. The advantages of storing computer information on tape are that tapes can store large amounts of data and are less expensive than disks. The drawback to using tape is slow running speed. Tape is the preferred method of storing information that is not needed frequently such as archived data.
1. A thin strip of material with adhesive applied to one or both sides, used for joining materials. 2. A drywall finishing procedure where paper "tape" is applied to the joints and covered with joint compound.
Strips of gummed paper used to hold edges of veneer together at the joints before gluing.
Veneer tape, gummed paper used to hold veneer together prior to gluing down.
A recording media for data or computer programs. Tape can be in permanent form, such as perforated paper tape, or erasable, such as magnetic tape. Generally, tape is used as a mass storage medium, in magnetic form, and has a much higher storage capacity than disk storage, but it takes much longer to write or recover data from tape than from a disk.
Magnetic tape, the principal means of recording, storing, and retrieving data for computerized mailing list operations.
a magnetically coated strip of plastic on which data can be written and stored for later retrieval. Tapes have large storage capacities, ranging from several hundred kilobytes to several gigabytes. Tapes, however, are not without their limitations. Tapes are sequential-access media, which means that to get to a particular point on the tape, the tape must go through all the preceding points resulting in much slower data access time. In contrast, disks are random-access media because a disk drive can access any point at random without passing through intervening points. Because of this, tapes are mostly used for long-term storage of data, backup, archival or transport services.
Storage media that is a magnetically coated ribbon of plastic capable of storing large amounts of data and information at a low cost; one of the first storage media used with mainframe computers. 7.26
n. 1. A thin strip of polyester film coated with magnetic material that permits the recording of data. Because tape is a continuous length of data storage material and because the read/write head cannot "jump" to a desired point on the tape without the tape first being advanced to that point, tape must be read or written sequentially, not randomly (as can be done on a floppy disk or a hard disk). 2. A storage medium consisting of a thin strip of paper used to store information in the form of sequences of punched holes, chemical impregnation, or magnetic ink imprinting.