Magnetic tape

1888

Despite this, innovation in the technology continues, and Sony and IBM continue to produce new magnetic tape drives. == Uses == === Audio === Magnetic tape was invented for recording sound by Fritz Pfleumer in 1928 in Germany, based on the invention of magnetic wire recording by Oberlin Smith in 1888 and Valdemar Poulsen in 1898.

1898

Despite this, innovation in the technology continues, and Sony and IBM continue to produce new magnetic tape drives. == Uses == === Audio === Magnetic tape was invented for recording sound by Fritz Pfleumer in 1928 in Germany, based on the invention of magnetic wire recording by Oberlin Smith in 1888 and Valdemar Poulsen in 1898.

1928

It was developed in Germany in 1928, based on magnetic wire recording.

Despite this, innovation in the technology continues, and Sony and IBM continue to produce new magnetic tape drives. == Uses == === Audio === Magnetic tape was invented for recording sound by Fritz Pfleumer in 1928 in Germany, based on the invention of magnetic wire recording by Oberlin Smith in 1888 and Valdemar Poulsen in 1898.

1933

In 1933, working for AEG, Eduard Schuller developed the ring-shaped tape head.

1970

Many late 1970s and early 1980s home computers used Compact Cassettes, encoded with the Kansas City standard, or alternate encodings.

1980

Many late 1970s and early 1980s home computers used Compact Cassettes, encoded with the Kansas City standard, or alternate encodings.

2002

Fifteen (15) to thirty (30) years of archival data storage is cited by manufacturers of modern data tape such as Linear Tape-Open media. In 2002, Imation received a US$11.9 million grant from the U.S.

2011

The highest capacity tape media are generally on the same order as the largest available disk drives (about 5 TB in 2011).




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