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

IBM 2321 Data Strips

physical object

2017.6.61

Description

A Plastic box with 4 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 Donors

 Walter McCutchan

Related Term

 Magnetic Disks (describes)