KINDS OF STORAGE

PUNCHED CARD, MAGNETIC TAPE, AND PAPER TAPE

WHAT IS STORAGE?

• the action or method of storing something for

future use.
• the retention of retrievable data on a computer or
other electronic system; memory.
3 KINDS OF STORAGE

• PUNCHED
CARD
• MAGNETIC
TAPE
• PAPER TAPE
PUNCHED CARD
• Punch cards (or "punched cards"), also
known as Hollerith cards or IBM cards,
are paper cards where holes may be
punched by hand or machine to
represent computer data and instructions.

• They were a widely-used means of

inputting data into early computers. The
cards were fed into a card reader connected
to a computer, which converted the
sequence of holes to digital information.
MAGNETIC TAPE
• In the early days
of computing, magnetic tapes were one of the
few methods used to store data. Magnetic
tapes consist of a thin plastic strip that has a
magnetic coating, on which data can be stored.

• Early systems throughout the 1950s to the

1970s used magnetic tape on 10.5-inch tape,
whereas home computers in the early 1980s
used audiocassette tapes for storing programs
and data.

• Today, magnetic tape is still commonly used

to back up data on network servers and
individual computers.
PAPER TAPE • Paper tape is a slow, low-
capacity, sequential medium for
data storage that was used on
early communications and
computing devices.

• The data was written and stored

using special tape reading and
writing systems. It was widely used
during the early twentieth century
for teleprinter communication as
well as in the computing world in the
1950s and 1960s. Paper tape is
largely obsolete now.
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