Magnetic recording is the technique of storing electric signals as a magnetic pattern on a moving magnetic surface. The concept of recording sound on magnetic tape--and thus the principle of the tape recorder--was worked out theoretically in an 1888...

Magnetic storage and magnetic recording are terms from engineering referring to the storage of data on a magnetised medium. Magnetic storage uses different patterns of magnetization in a magnetizable material to store data and is a form of non-volatile...

Is the venerable magnetic hard disk drive going the way of computer punch cards?Flash memory, which has already supplanted magnetic hard drive disk storage in all but the largest-capacity models of Apple's AAPL iPod, may soon become standard equipment in some notebook computers too. Flash...