Physical File Formats
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=== Electronical === | === Electronical === | ||
* [[Cables and connectors]] | * [[Cables and connectors]] | ||
| + | * [[Computer]] | ||
| + | * [[Control voltage]] | ||
* [[Core rope memory]] | * [[Core rope memory]] | ||
| − | * [[Flash memory]] | + | * [[:Category:Flash memory|Flash memory]] |
** [[Secure Digital]] (SD, MiniSD, MicroSD) | ** [[Secure Digital]] (SD, MiniSD, MicroSD) | ||
** [[Thumb drive]] | ** [[Thumb drive]] | ||
| + | ** [[Solid-State Drive]] (SSD) | ||
* [[Game cartridges]] | * [[Game cartridges]] | ||
* [[Keyless entry systems]] | * [[Keyless entry systems]] | ||
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** [[Contactless smart card]] | ** [[Contactless smart card]] | ||
* [[Transponder]] | * [[Transponder]] | ||
| + | * [[Smartphone]] | ||
| + | * [[Smartwatch]] | ||
| + | * [[Video game memory card]] | ||
=== Magnetic === | === Magnetic === | ||
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* [[Punched card]] | * [[Punched card]] | ||
* [[Punched tape]] | * [[Punched tape]] | ||
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| + | ==== Other ==== | ||
| + | * [[Mechanical computer]] | ||
=== Optical === | === Optical === | ||
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* [[Optical mark recognition]] | * [[Optical mark recognition]] | ||
* [[Phonautogram]] (phonautograph tracing) | * [[Phonautogram]] (phonautograph tracing) | ||
| + | * [[Printer tracking dots]] | ||
| + | * [[Watermark (physical)]] | ||
=== Misc/Other === | === Misc/Other === | ||
| − | * [[ | + | * [[Human computer]] |
| + | * [[Synthesizer patch]] | ||
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| + | And there are the ones that don't actually exist, but have been written about in fiction... | ||
| + | * [[Fictional physical formats]] | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
Latest revision as of 01:54, 16 August 2025
| File Formats | > | Physical File Formats |
Like the rest, this will be split down further.
One of the first steps in preserving data held on physical media is the correct identification of the medium. See Identifying Physical Media for more information on this.
[edit] Traditional
[edit] Capacitive
- Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED)
- Video High Density (VHD)
[edit] Electronical
- Cables and connectors
- Computer
- Control voltage
- Core rope memory
- Flash memory
- Secure Digital (SD, MiniSD, MicroSD)
- Thumb drive
- Solid-State Drive (SSD)
- Game cartridges
- Keyless entry systems
- Networked devices
- Quantum computer
- Radio-frequency identification (RFID)
- Random Access Memory (RAM)
- Read Only Memory (ROM chip)
- SIM card
- Smart card
- Transponder
- Smartphone
- Smartwatch
- Video game memory card
[edit] Magnetic
- Disk cartridge
- Drum memory
- Floppy disk
- Hard disk
- Magnetic stripe card
- Magnetic tape (audio cassettes, video cassettes, reel-to-reel, etc.)
- Magneto-optical drive
- Wire recording
[edit] Mechanical
[edit] Groove media
[edit] Point based media
[edit] Other
[edit] Optical
[edit] Disc media
- Magneto-optical drive
- Optical Discs (CD, DVD, BluRay, etc.)
[edit] Photography and Projection
- Holography
- Microform
- Photographic film
- Photographic paper
- Photographic plate
- Transparency (projection)
- X-ray
[edit] Other
- Bar codes
- DOTS
- Drexon Laser Card
- Optical mark recognition
- Phonautogram (phonautograph tracing)
- Printer tracking dots
- Watermark (physical)
[edit] Misc/Other
And there are the ones that don't actually exist, but have been written about in fiction...
[edit] External links
- We ❤ Retro Media: Vinyl, VHS, Tapes & Film (Video)
- Some videodisc formats from before you thought such a thing existed
- Gallery: Digitizing the past and present at the Library of Congress
- The Death of the Age of Stuff (comic)
- 240-year-old programmable automaton
- Computer Hardware Chart
- The ‘Knowledge Box’: Picture an Early, Trippy, Analog Wikipedia in 3-D
- Multimeters considered helpful (for servicing electronics)
- Relics of Technology photo series
- Museum of Obsolete Media
- Using technology to make old songs sing again
- Liquid hard drive could store 1TB data in a tablespoon
- Mediapedia - The Mediapedia is prototype web-based resource intended to enable the physical identification of various media carrier types.
- This album comes on 12 'dead' formats including MiniDisc
- The evolution of physical music formats: An interactive timeline
- The Utopia Of Records: Why Sound Archiving Is Important
- Digitize the Planet
- Physicists achieve atomic data storage
