The Future Of Digital Magnetic Tape

R.F. M. Thornley

doi:10.1117/12.946453

12 April 1985 The Future Of Digital Magnetic Tape

R.F. M. Thornley

Proceedings Volume 0529, Optical Mass Data Storage I; (1985) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.946453
Event: 1985 Los Angeles Technical Symposium, 1985, Los Angeles, United States

Abstract

For over 30 years, digital tape has provided the most cost-effective medium for the storage of sequentially accessed data and for archival storage of large quantities of data. Tape will continue to meet all requirements in these areas because there are no plausible competing technologies and the current tape technology is not approaching any fundamental limits. Changes will be slow because of the inertia of existing tape libraries and the convenience of backward compatibility.

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R.F. M. Thornley "The Future Of Digital Magnetic Tape", Proc. SPIE 0529, Optical Mass Data Storage I, (12 April 1985); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.946453

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