Abstract
The principal characteristics of current magnetic disks and tape units are summarized and compared. Some of the characteristics of disk files are illustrated in a sorting example and compared to a tapesort. The conclusion is presented that disk files are competitive to tapes in some important applications. © 1963, ACM. All rights reserved.
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Hess, H. (1963). A comparison of disks and tapes. Communications of the ACM, 6(10), 634–638. https://doi.org/10.1145/367651.367693
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