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A magnetic disk storage device in which data is stored on a cylindrical drum is called _________.

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Punch card

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Magnetic disk

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Magnetic tape

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Drum

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The correct option is D Drum

A magnetic storage device on which data is stored on a cylindrical drum, subdivided into tracks is known as Drum.

Drum memory was a magnetic data storage device invented by Gustav Tauschek in 1932 in Austria. Drums were widely used in the 1950s and into the 1960s as computer memory.

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