What is a magnetic tape?

      

What is a magnetic tape?

  

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Isaac
This is a magnetic secondary storage device which uses the principle of magnetism to store data on a data on a ribbon-like film coated with magnetic material on which data is recorded sequentially.

Data is read and written onto it sequentially.
Data is read and written onto it using a magnetic disk drive.
isaacmuthini answered the question on December 12, 2017 at 05:55


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