And the idea of being able to build new instruments to create it, like this paper-tape programmable music box (YouTube, embedded below), is beyond impressive. The build video hints at more details ...

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Starting in the 1980s, internal and external tape drives were occasionally used with personal computers. By the late 1990s, personal computer tape backup was largely abandoned due to CD-ROMs and ...

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An eleventh platter gives extra capacity, while shingled (overlapped) writes – best suited to sequential recording use cases ...

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The recording medium may be bare or encased in a cartridge, which is inserted into the drive's slot. (3) A magnetic tape drive, all of which use removable cartridges or cassettes. See magnetic tape.

From there, [iot4c] fitted the Raspberry Pi, a USB hard drive, and a YDS-5A DC-DC converter to power them. Depending on what the drive setup looks like, it might also make sense to add a USB ...

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Taiwan-based chip manufacturer MediaTek and American chip giant NVIDIA are reportedly set to collaborate on the development ...

MediaTek and Nvidia are rumored to have a 3nm AI PC CPU ready for tape-out this month and mass-production in late 2025. The ...

It cost $4,300 (in today's dollars). 1983 - Rodime released the first 3.5-inch hard disk, the RO352, setting a standard for desktop computer drives. It held 10MB at a cost of $1,895, or almost ...