• Front of plastic case
    Front of plastic case
IBM 2321 Data Strips
IBM 2321 Data Strips
IBM 2321 Data Strips
IBM 2321 Data Strips
IBM 2321 Data Strips

IBM 2321 Data Strips

physical object

Identifier
2017.6.58
Description
A Plastic box with 7 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. Inside of the case there is some decaying protective foam.
Related Term
Magnetic Tape (describes)

Related people
Joseph Ditner (is documentarian of)
Walter McCutchan (was donor of)