[QuadList] Magnetic Tape Turns 60 - Forbes for computers or all use?

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Magnetic Tape Turns 60 - Forbes for computers or all use? 
Magnetic Tape  Turns 60 - Forbes 
This year, 2012, digital plastic substrate magnetic tape  turns 60 years 
old. The _IBM_ (http://www.forbes.com/companies/ibm/)  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  magnet
ic 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.


Source: 
_http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/2012/05/17/magnetic-tape-turns-60/_ 
(http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/2012/05/17/magnetic-tape-turns-60/) 
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