Recording medium

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Recording medium

A recording medium is a physical material that holds information expressed in any of the existing recording formats.

Ancient examples

• Papyrus
• Paper (painted or written with a pencil). Today paper is mainly produced from wood pulp; in ancient times, old clothes were used. "Modern paper" was invented in France around the 14th century.
• Clay and stone (carved or incised)
• Wax tablets
• Chalk
• Quipu

Examples since the 19th century

• Photographic film
• Wax for recording Phonograph cylinders
• "Shellac" compound and later vinyl for analog disk records
• Plastic sheet for Dictaphone recorders
• Steel wire for magnetic wire recorders
• Magnetic tape
• Rigid magnetic disks and cylinders
• Floppy magnetic disks
• Pressed optical media for CDs and DVDs
• Write-once, read-many optical media for writable CDs and DVDs
• Read-write optical media for rewritable CDs and DVDs
• Flash memory media

See also

• Computer storage
• Multimedia
• Blank media tax
• Medium format film
• Nonlinear medium (random access)

 

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