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    The 8-track tape (formally Stereo 8; commonly called eight-track cartridge, eight-track tape, and eight-track) is a magnetic-tape sound recording technology...
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  • later 9-track tape. Modern magnetic tape is most commonly packaged in cartridges and cassettes, such as the widely supported Linear Tape-Open (LTO) and...
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    The RCA tape cartridge (labeled the RCA Sound Tape Cartridge) is a magnetic tape audio format that was designed to offer stereo quarter-inch reel-to-reel...
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    terabytes or higher of uncompressed data per cartridge were available. In early computer systems, magnetic tape served as the main storage medium because...
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    (12.65 mm) wide tape media wound onto a single reel. Mechanisms (a.k.a. tape drives, streamers) extract the tape from the cartridge and spool it up on...
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  • tape and cartridge formats that use magnetic tape. Both "cassette" and "cartridge" refer to a small plastic unit containing a length of magnetic tape...
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    Quarter inch cartridge tape (abbreviated QIC, commonly pronounced "quick") is a magnetic tape data storage format introduced by 3M in 1972, with derivatives...
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  • An endless tape cartridge is a tape cartridge or cassette that contains magnetic audio tape that can be played in an endless loop, without the need to...
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    the term "cartridge", in modern usage the term "cartridge" and "tape cartridge" usually refers to a plastic unit that only has one reel of tape and companies...
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    Stereo-Pak (redirect from 4-Track cartridge)
    commonly known as the 4-track cartridge, is a magnetic tape sound recording cartridge technology. The Stereo-Pak cartridge was inspired by the Fidelipac...
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    Audiotape (redirect from Audio tape)
    reel-to-reel audio tape recording on open reels or they can be enclosed in cases that only have one reel (tape cartridge) or two reels (cassette tape). The use...
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    A tape cartridge, also known as a tape cart, is a storage medium used for audio recording, video recording, or data storage that includes a magnetic tape...
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  • a RAM expansion cartridge Data cartridge (tape), magnetic tape in a plastic enclosure Tape cartridge, for use in tape drives Cartridge (disambiguation)...
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    recorded up to 8 tracks of 16-bit digital audio on a standard S-VHS tape cartridge. Additionally, up to 16 ADATs could be connected to each other to record...
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    the TK50 tape drive for the MicroVAX II and PDP-11 minicomputers in 1984. This used 22-track CompacTape I cartridges, storing 94 MB per cartridge. The TK50...
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    nearly a century—withstanding competition from reel-to-reel tape, the 8-track cartridge, and the compact cassette. The widespread popularity of Sony's...
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    IBM 3592 (category Computer storage tape media)
    on a tape cartridge and has a native data transfer rate of up to 400 MB/s. In August 2023 IBM announced the TS1170 tape drive with 50TB cartridges, more...
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    Fidelipac (redirect from NAB cartridge)
    The Fidelipac, commonly known as a "NAB cartridge" or simply "cart", is a magnetic tape sound recording format, used for radio broadcasting for playback...
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    forms of magnetic tape recorders used it. The name arose only with the need to distinguish it from the several kinds of tape cartridges or cassettes such...
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    (magnetic tape) is passed and wound—essentially miniaturizing reel-to-reel audio tape and enclosing it, with its reels, in a small case (cartridge)—hence...
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  • tape silo, tape robot, or tape jukebox. These are a storage devices that contain one or more tape drives, a number of slots to hold tape cartridges,...
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    confined tape to a niche market. Cartridge and cassette tapes were more convenient and less expensive than reel-to-reel tapes, and they became popular for...
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    dual reel cartridge, similar to Sony's 8 mm videotape products and Exabyte's 8 mm data tape products. SAIT – 1/2", single reel cartridge, similar to...
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    Phonograph (redirect from Phono cartridge)
    used at their residences. In the 1960s, the use of 8-track cartridges and cassette tapes were introduced as alternatives. By 1987, phonograph use had...
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    4-track cartridge technology. The tape cartridges play anywhere from eight to 24 minutes, and are continuous. Because of its portability, PlayTape was an...
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  • (LTFS-LE) product allows LTFS volumes to be used in a tape library. Each LTFS-formatted tape cartridge in the library appears as a separate folder under the...
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    the 4-track cartridge) Perforated (sprocketed) film audio magnetic tape (sepmag, perfotape, sound follower tape, magnetic film) 8-track tape Compact Cassette...
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    Elcaset (category Tape recording)
    in 1976, building on an idea introduced 20 years earlier in the RCA tape cartridge.[citation needed] In 1976, it was widely felt that the compact cassette...
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    Lonely Hearts Club Band. The next important innovation was small cartridge-based tape systems, of which the compact cassette, commercialized by the Philips...
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    Travan (category Computer storage tape media)
    Travan is an 8 mm magnetic tape cartridge design developed by the 3M company, used for the storage of data in computer backups and mass storage. Over time...
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