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magnetic card
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magnetic card

(1) See magnetic stripe.

(2) Wide strips of magnetic tape used in early data storage devices and word processors. See CRAM, RACE and Data Cell.

A Data Cell Card
The magnetic tape card on the right came from an IBM Data Cell cartridge in the 1960s. Storing 200KB, it resided with 199 other cards in a cartridge. (Image courtesy of Frank da Cruz, www.columbia.edu/acis/history)

magnetic card [mag′ned·ik ′kärd]
(computer science)
A card with a magnetic surface on which data can be stored by selective magnetization.


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