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2. List of cassette tape data storage formats - Wikipedia

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   Prior to the introduction of the Disk II, cassette was the main storage medium for Apple machines. Here an Apple II is using a Panasonic tape deck. The Apple I introduced an expansion-card based cassette system similar to KCS, recording a single cycle of 2000 Hz for a space and a single cycle of 1000 Hz for a mark. This resulted in an average ...

3. Magnetic-tape data storage - Wikipedia

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   Magnetic-tape data storage is a system for storing digital information on magnetic tape using digital recording.. Tape was an important medium for primary data storage in early computers, typically using large open reels of 7-track, later 9-track tape.

4. Commodore Datasette - Wikipedia

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   The Commodore 1530 (C2N) Datasette, later also Datassette (a portmanteau of data and cassette), is Commodore's dedicated magnetic-tape data storage device. Using compact cassettes as the storage medium, it provides inexpensive storage to Commodore's 8-bit computers, including the PET, VIC-20, and Commodore 64.

5. Cassette tape - Wikipedia

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   The cassette was adapted into what is called a streamer cassette (also known as a "D/CAS" cassette), a version dedicated solely for data storage, and used chiefly for hard disk backups and other types of data. Streamer cassettes look almost exactly the same as a standard cassette, with the exception of having a notch about one quarter-inch wide ...

6. Kansas City standard - Wikipedia

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   The SWTPC AC-30 Cassette Interface implements the Kansas City standard. In May 1976, it was sold for US$80 (equivalent to about $400 in 2023).. The Kansas City standard (KCS), or Byte standard, is a data storage protocol for standard cassette tapes or other audio recording media at 300 bits per second.

7. Tape drive - Wikipedia

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   A tape drive is a data storage device that reads and writes data on a magnetic tape. Magnetic-tape data storage is typically used for offline, archival data storage. Tape media generally has a favorable unit cost and long archival stability. A tape drive provides sequential access storage, unlike a hard disk drive, which provides direct access ...

8. Data8 - Wikipedia

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   The company was formed with the aim of taking the 8 mm video format and making it suitable for data storage. They did so by building a reliable mechanism and data format that used the common 8 mm helical scan video tape technology that was available then. Exabyte's first 8 mm tape drive was made available in 1987.

9. List of magnetic tape cartridges and cassettes - Wikipedia

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   Digital Tape Format, a magnetic tape data storage format developed by Sony Digital Audio Tape (DAT), a signal recording and playback medium developed by Sony and introduced in 1987 Digital Compact Cassette (DCC), a magnetic tape sound recording format introduced by Philips and Matsushita in late 1992 and marketed as the successor to the ...