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Description
This programme considers tape and disc storage using the example of searching a telephone directory. Limitations of the two devices are exposed.
This programme considers tape and disc storage using the example of searching a telephone directory. Limitations of the two devices are exposed.
| Module code and title: | M251, An algorithmic approach to computing |
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| Item code: | M251; 07; 1974 |
| First transmission date: | 17-06-1974 |
| Published: | 1974 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:05 |
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| Producer: | Jack Koumi |
| Contributors: | Richard Maddison; Mike Pengelly |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Animated film; Back-up devices; Data storage; Looking up numbers; Magnetic disc; Magnetic tape; Telephone directory; Up-dating |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/71403 |
| Production number: | 00525_4194 |
| Videofinder number: | 3478 |
| Available to public: | no |
