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In telecommunication, a machine-readable medium (automated data medium) is a medium capable of storing data in a form that can be accessed by an automated sensing device.
Examples of machine-readable media include (a) magnetic diskss, cards, tapes, and drums, (b) punched cards and paper tapes, (c) optical disks, (d) barcodes and (e) magnetic ink characters.
Original source: Federal Standard 1037C
