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Discussion Forum : Computer Fundamentals - Section 1 (Q.No. 15)
15.
Which access method is used for obtaining a record from a cassette tape?
Direct
Sequential
Random
All of the above
None of the above
Answer: Option
Explanation:
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Discussion:
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Kuldeep Sharma said:   5 years ago
The cassette has information in a long tread this tread moves forward and the information is read by!
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Chaitanya said:   6 years ago
How sequential? Please explain.

Ashok Arya said:   9 years ago
Long-Long time ago when we are small, we use cassettes. This is a box like a thing which contains songs or sometimes movies.

Any one who did operate this cassette, know that we can't go directly from song no 1 to song no 10. We have to go to 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 songs to rich 10th song.

Cassettes are built like that. The cassette has information in a long tread this tread is move forward and the information is read by!
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Kali kranthi said:   9 years ago
Why cannot access memory randomly in cassette. Please explain briefly.

Sanjana said:   9 years ago
Sir please give briefly explanation each question.

Rick said:   10 years ago
In cassettes you cannot access memory randomly.

Suryakant said:   1 decade ago
Tape is characterized by sequential access to data. While tape can provide a very high data transfer rate for streaming long contiguous sequences of data, it takes in the 10s of seconds to reposition the tape head to an arbitrarily chosen place on the tape. In contrast, hard disk technology can perform the equivalent action in 10s of milliseconds (3 orders of magnitude faster) and can be thought of as offering random access to data.
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SOURABH DALE said:   1 decade ago
Because cassette use magnetic tape for storing data, and data stored in sequential order from magnetic tape, so cassette also accessing data in sequential order.

Rahul said:   1 decade ago
What is a Cassette?

Rani said:   1 decade ago
What is tape drive?


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