IBM 2321 Data Strips
physical object
Identifier
2017.6.57
Description
A Plastic box with 5 magnetic strips used in a 3021 data cell each strip can hold up to 2 MB of data, 200 strips would have used in a cell totaling to 400 million bytes of data (400MB). The data strips would have been used from 1964-1975. on the exterior of the case it reads "IBM 2321 Data Strips" a label number "2175230" and a note reading "set Zero Missing"
Related Term
Magnetic Tape (describes)
External links
Wikipedia: IBM 2321 Data Cell
