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Honeywell magnetic tape
Honeywell magnetic tape

Honeywell magnetic tape

physical object

Identifier
2018.13.5
Description
This is a magnetic tape that was manufactured by Honeywell in the USA. It has 6250 BPI (bits per inch). According to Wikipedia for IBM generations, "The maximum data capacity of a 2400 ft reel, blocked at 32,767 bytes and recorded at 6250 BPI was 170 megabytes."
Related Term
Magnetic Tape (describes)

Related people
Kina Kim (is documentarian of)
Kevin Stumpf (was donor of)