Fact · Dictation
Plastic dictation belts were later replaced by magnetic tape and then by hard drive dictation machines.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Plastic, in turn, gave way to magnetic tape and later hard drive dictation machines as the dictation medium of choice.”
Dictaphone Turns 100, Speech Technology magazine, n.d., Dictaphone history section.
Open the original- What it measures
- Magnetic tape was the medium of the cassette era. Hard drive machines followed in the later decades of the twentieth century.
- What it does not show
- The article does not give dates for the change to tape or to hard drives.