Fifty years of IBM innovation with information storage on magnetic tape

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 373-384

  Bradshaw, Richard ^a   Schroeder, Carl ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA COMPRESSION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETIC TAPE;

REMOVABLE MEDIA STORAGE SOLUTIONS; STORAGE CAPACITY;

MAGNETIC TAPE STORAGE;

EID: 0042823986     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/rd.474.0373     Document Type: Article

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