When.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Quarter-inch cartridge - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter-inch_cartridge

   Quarter inch cartridge tape (abbreviated QIC, commonly pronounced "quick") is a magnetic tape data storage format introduced by 3M in 1972, [1] with derivatives still in use as of 2016. QIC comes in a rugged enclosed package of aluminum and plastic that holds two tape reels driven by a single belt in direct contact with the tape.

3. 9-track tape - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-track_tape

   9-track tape is a format for magnetic-tape data storage, introduced with the IBM System/360 in 1964. The 1 ⁄ 2 inch (12.7 mm) wide magnetic tape media and reels have the same size as the earlier IBM 7-track format it replaced, but the new format has eight data tracks and one parity track for a total of nine

4. Richard Gurley Drew - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Gurley_Drew

   [3] (By "Scotch", he meant "cheap".) The nickname stuck, both to Drew's improved masking tape, and to his 1930 invention, Scotch Brand cellulose tape. In 1930 he came up with the world's first transparent cellophane adhesive tape (called sellotape in the UK and Scotch tape in the United States).

5. 3M - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M

   3M received $9.6 million in local tax increment financing and relief from state sales taxes in order to assist with development of the building. [120] Selected factory detail information: Cynthiana, Kentucky, U.S. factory producing Post-it Notes (672 SKU) and Scotch Tape (147 SKU). It has 539 employees and was established in 1969. [121]

6. Duct tape - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape

   In 1923, tape pioneer Richard Gurley Drew at 3M invented masking tape, a paper-based tape with a mildly sticky adhesive intended to be temporarily used and removed rather than left in place permanently. In 1925, this became the Scotch brand masking tape. In 1930, Drew developed a transparent cellophane-based tape, dubbed Scotch Tape.

7. Pressure-sensitive tape - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure-sensitive_tape

   Pressure-sensitive tape or pressure-sensitive adhesive tape (PSA tape) is an adhesive tape that sticks when pressure is applied without the need for a solvent (such as water) or heat for activation. It is also known in various countries as self-stick tape , sticky tape , or just adhesive tape and tape , as well as genericized trademarks , such ...