The major use of terbium is in compact fluorescent light bulbs (the other main one is in phosphors for TV screens).

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Before the introduction of magnetic tape, digital storage for early computers used punched cards, paper tape as well as more exotic technologies such as mercury delay lines and the phosphors on cathode ray tubes.

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