Physical File Formats

File Formats

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Physical File Formats

Like the rest, this will be split down further.

Traditional

• Clay tablets
• Parchment
• Paper
• Papyrus
• Stone carving
• Quipu

Capacitive

• CED
• VHD

Electronical

• Game cartridge
• Thumb drive

Magnetic

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

Mechanical

Groove media

• Dictabelt
• Gramophone record
• Phonograph cylinder

Point based media

• Music box
• Piano Rolls
• Punched card
• Punched tape

Optical

• Bar codes
• Holography
• LaserDisc
• Magneto-optical drive
• Microform
• Optical Disc
• Photographic film
• Photographic paper
• Photographic plates
• Television Electronic Disc
• Transparency (projection)
• QR codes

Misc/unsorted

• Clothing (Doubtful if it qualifies as a file format)
• Disk cartridge (Ambiguous; specify further)
• Thomson CSF system
• X-ray