0 a plastic strip covered with a magnetic substance on which sound, images, or computer information can be recorded
All coded data were stored on magnetic tape, and a general search programme enabled any desired set of tables to be produced.
The data were coded to 80-column punch card format and transferred to magnetic tape.
There is no resemblance or isomorphism between the magnetic tape and the images that it encodes, except for its information content.
Earlier ones involved storage on disc or film soundtrack, while more recent ones have been based on magnetic tape or actual sampling machines.
It was now possible to piece music together as a puzzle of 'pieces of sound' or 'sections of magnetic tape'.
Compared to wax, magnetic tape could be quite simply erased and recorded over.
Names and addresses were omitted from the magnetic tape records.
The raw data are digitized a t a rate of 200 points per second per variable and written onto magnetic tape for analysis.
