Physical File Formats
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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.
Traditional
Capacitive
- Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED)
- Video High Density (VHD)
Electronical
- Cables and connectors
- Core rope memory
- Flash memory
- Secure Digital (SD, MiniSD, MicroSD)
- Thumb drive
- Game cartridges
- Keyless entry systems
- Networked devices
- Quantum computer
- Random Access Memory (RAM)
- Read Only Memory (ROM chip)
- SIM card
- 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
Point based media
Optical
Disc media
- Magneto-optical drive
- Optical Discs (CD, DVD, BluRay, etc.)
Photography and Projection
- Holography
- Microform
- Photographic film
- Photographic paper
- Photographic plate
- Transparency (projection)
- X-ray
Other
- Bar codes
- Drexon Laser Card
- Optical mark recognition
- Phonautogram (phonautograph tracing)
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
