How to Use magnetic tape in a Sentence
magnetic tape
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When the creations are complete, affix magnetic tape to the backs.
—Joan Lang, Woman's Day, 9 Sep. 2019
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Long-term storage was left to mediums like magnetic tape and punch cards.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 4 Nov. 2019
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Like the hard disk and the transistor, magnetic tape has advanced enormously over the decades.
—Mark Lantz, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Aug. 2018
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Since its invention in 1928, magnetic tape has played a role in recording all sorts of data.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 12 Apr. 2018
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Oelze bought an Echoplex — a machine that uses magnetic tape to add delay to a sound — and ran Auldridge’s Dobro guitar through it.
—Washington Post, 3 May 2022
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Twist magnetic tapes back into clean loops that say, Now repeat—qué onda?
—Hazlitt, 29 Mar. 2023
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Data may be stored on media that degrade, like punch cards, floppy disks or magnetic tape.
—Keith Kintigh, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2018
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That strong magnetic tape, slipped into a little cassette recorder, has held us together for all these years.
—Eileen Sharkey, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2018
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Unlike other robot vacuums, this one comes with a strip of magnetic tape that can be placed to block off an area or a room where it's not allowed to enter.
—Amy Schulman, PEOPLE.com, 17 July 2021
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The most simplistic requires you to use tape, known as barrier tape, boundary tape, or just magnetic tape.
—Popular Science, 15 Mar. 2021
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The set includes a one-piece swimsuit, one pair of biker shorts, a wristband/headband set, magnetic tape earrings and legwarmers.
—Lisa Levine, Variety, 5 Oct. 2022
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The linear code is quite lengthy (about 6 feet long per human cell), so it’s stored neatly wound around protein bobbins, similar to how magnetic tape is wound around spools in cassette tapes.
—Quanta Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
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But digital recordings are perishable in their own right — far less stable, in fact, than recordings on magnetic tape.
—New York Times, 11 June 2019
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Beyond taking up loads of space, your old VHS recordings rely on magnetic tape that is known to deteriorate over time.
—Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2021
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In part that’s because the physical media they were originally recorded on — film stock and magnetic tape — were so fragile.
—Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 20 Dec. 2017
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Amazon, by contrast, offers tiered storage services, where customers pay more for hot storage and less for storage methods that take longer to access, such as on magnetic tape.
—BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2021
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The whirr of spooling magnetic tape is more likely to evoke feelings of nostalgia than technological awe.
—The Economist, 15 Dec. 2020
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Its archives of magnetic tape were recently digitized thanks to a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
—Jeremy Gordon, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2023
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The music industry largely stopped cutting performances directly to disc 70 years ago, with the advent of magnetic tape.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 June 2022
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If civilization stopped right now, in a thousand years all the magnetic tape, compact discs and hard drives humanity stores its digital media on would have long outlived their shelf lives.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 Oct. 2017
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Over 60% of retained data is stored in colder storage technologies (mostly HDDs and magnetic tape with some optical disc storage as well).
—Tom Coughlin, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
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But in order to replace existing silicon chip or magnetic tape storage technologies, DNA is going to have to get a lot cheaper to predictably read, write, and package.
—Megan Molteni, WIRED, 26 June 2018
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The first blog focused on developments and projections for magnetic recording (HDDs and magnetic tape).
—Tom Coughlin, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2021
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These particular cylinders were previously available to the library in the 1980s, when they were transferred to magnetic tape and released as part of a six-volume LP set compiling the Mapleson recordings.
—Jeremy Gordon, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2023
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These days, the major studios and film archives largely rely on a magnetic tape storage technology known as LTO, or linear tape-open, to preserve motion pictures.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2017
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Just a few years prior, magnetic tape data was read mechanically.
—Ryan Larry, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2022
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The space agency often reused its expensive magnetic tapes, erasing and overwriting data.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 11 Apr. 2018
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Another is video, which is an electronic method of recording onto various mediums, such as moving magnetic tape.
—Howard Berry, Quartz, 18 July 2019
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In addition, the regulation also required magnetic tape recorders be retired in favor of solid-state devices, a rule that took effect this January.
—Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 7 May 2019
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For a digital archive, the French National Library’s collection of Web data is surprisingly small—just 200 terabytes stored on hard disks and magnetic tape in the library’s data center.
—Ariel Bleicher, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Feb. 2011
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