Physical File Formats

Like the rest, this will be split down further.

Traditional

 * Clay tablets
 * Clothing
 * Paper
 * Papyrus
 * Parchment
 * Quipu
 * Stone carving

Capacitive

 * Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED)
 * Video High Density (VHD)

Electronical

 * Contactless smart card
 * Game cartridges
 * Read Only Memory (ROM chip)
 * Thumb drive
 * Transponder

Magnetic

 * Audio Cassette
 * Disk cartridge
 * Drum memory
 * Floppy disk
 * Hard disk
 * Magnetic stripe card
 * Magnetic tape
 * Magneto-optical drive
 * Videotape
 * Wire recording

Groove media

 * Dictabelt
 * Gramophone record
 * Phonograph cylinder
 * Television Electronic Disc

Point based media

 * Music box
 * Piano Rolls
 * Punched card
 * Punched tape

Optical

 * Bar codes
 * Holography
 * Magneto-optical drive
 * Microform
 * Optical Discs
 * Optical mark recognition
 * Phonautogram (phonautograph tracing)
 * Photographic film
 * Photographic paper
 * Photographic plates
 * Transparency (projection)
 * X-ray