The emerging social significance of the magnetic-tape write-enable ring

  • Authors:

  • Dick Dunn

  • Affiliations:

  • NBT, Inc. Boulder, Co

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
  • Year:
  • 1985

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Abstract

Magnetic tape write-enable rings are found, by virtue of physical characteristics and wide general availability, to be of considerable use outside their designed application area. Their serendipitous significance is conceptually analogous to that of the paper clip.