Physical File Formats

File Formats

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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

• Flash memory
  • Thumb drive
• Game cartridges
• Read Only Memory (ROM chip)
• SIM card
• Smart card
  • Contactless smart card
• Transponder

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

Mechanical

Groove media

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

Point based media

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

Optical

Disc media

• Magneto-optical drive
• Optical Discs

Photography and Projection

• Holography
• Microform
• Photographic film
• Photographic paper
• Photographic plates
• Transparency (projection)
• X-ray

Other

• Bar codes
• Optical mark recognition
• Phonautogram (phonautograph tracing)

External links

• We ❤ Retro Media: Vinyl, VHS, Tapes & Film (Video)