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The stripe is effectively a short piece of magnetic recording tape. The swipe reader contains a 3-track head (similar to the stereo 2-track head used in audio cassette tape recorders). When the card is pulled quickly and smoothly past this head the data is read and sent to a microcomputer, which decodes it and sends the account number to the bank so the proper transactions can be made.
100 mph tape is duck tape or duct tape, it is called 100 mph tape because it can withstand winds up to 100 mph. Google it if you don't believe me.
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The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape was created in 1987.
The first tape recorders were reel to reel style on a single track. However, it was not long before multiple track recording was available one a single tape.
The 45 rpm record was followed by the , which in turn was followed by the eight-track tape player.
Jerry Reed had an 8 track tape in 1976 with that as the first song
it was the latest technology
The largest capacity magnetic tape (as of the time of this answer) is 1 Terrabyte.
It is a metre.
$2.00
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buy one and see.
2 inches, ear to ear.