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Describe how serial data access finds data

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Serial access works by accessing the data at the beginning and then working through it bit-by-bit until the end.

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Examples of storage medium that use serial access are:

Video cassettes.

Music cassettes.

Backup tape cartridges(hold lots of tape for backing up large amounts of data)

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Serial data access will go through all the data by order until the target data is reached

Step-by-step explanation:

This is opposite of direct data access which immediately finds the desired

data

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