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RECORDING MEDIUM

A recording medium is a physical material that holds information expressed in any of the existing Recording Formats .


Ancient examples

  • Papyrus

  • Paper (painted or written with a pencil). Today paper is mainly produced from wood pulp; in ancient times, old clothes were used. "Modern paper" was invented in France around the 14th century.

  • Clay and stone (carved or incised)

  • Wax tablets

  • Chalk

  • Quipu



Examples since the 19th century

  • Photographic film

  • Wax for recording Phonograph Cylinder s

  • "Shellac" compound and later vinyl for analog disk records

  • Plastic sheet for Dictaphone recorders

  • Steel wire for magnetic wire recorders

  • Magnetic tape

  • Rigid magnetic disks and cylinders

  • Floppy magnetic disks

  • Pressed optical media for CDs and DVDs

  • Write-once, read-many optical media for writable CDs and DVDs

  • Read-write optical media for rewritable CDs and DVDs

  • Flash memory media



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