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<DIV>Magnetic Tape Turns 60 - Forbes for computers or all use? <BR>Magnetic Tape
Turns 60 - Forbes <BR>This year, 2012, digital plastic substrate magnetic tape
turns 60 years old. The <A title=http://www.forbes.com/companies/ibm/
href="http://www.forbes.com/companies/ibm/" target=_blank>IBM</A> 726 digital
tape drive was introduced in 1952 to provide larger amounts of digital storage
for computers, in particular IBM’s 701 computer. Before the introduction of
magnetic tape, digital storage for early computers used punched cards, paper
tape as well as more exotic technologies such as mercury delay lines and the
phosphors on cathode ray tubes.<BR><BR><BR>Source: <A
title=http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/2012/05/17/magnetic-tape-turns-60/
href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/2012/05/17/magnetic-tape-turns-60/"
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