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Roll Tape: HP 3950 Recording System
Date: 1966
The 3950 was Hewlett-Packard’s first magnetic tape recording system. It was designed for instrumentation recording, but in the coming years Hewlett-Packard tape reels would be among the first data storage media for enterprise computer backups.
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