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IBM 2321 Data Strips
IBM 2321 Data Strips
IBM 2321 Data Strips

IBM 2321 Data Strips

physical object

Identifier
2017.6.59
Description
A Plastic box with 3 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.
Related Term
Magnetic Tape (describes)

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