Optical tape is a medium for optical storage generally consisting of a long and narrow strip of plastic onto which patterns can be written and from which the patterns can be read back. It shares some technologies with cinema film stock and optical discs, but is compatible with neither. In the 1990s, it was projected1991 New York Times article on optical tape technologies. that optical tape would be a commonly used, high-capacity, high-speed computer data storage format. At least one working systemInformation about Creo from answers.com and several prototypesAIIM Overview of Optical tape technologies c. 1996.comp.arch.storage summary of several optical tape technologies available c. 1997. were developed, but as of 2007, none of these technologies are widely used.
