IBM announced the first tape drive according to the Linear Tape Open specification. Now the company is the last manufacturer ...

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 ...

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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Your old VHS tapes are likely gathering dust, and they won't last forever. Fortunately, it's easier than ever to preserve ...

This was a rather unusual continuous-loop mini-tape cartridge that could store around 100 kB and load it at lightning speed, all at a much lower price point than a floppy drive. The low price came ...

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Everything’s in order. And both of them are bricks.” The migration to hard drives from tape storage began in earnest in the ...

Tape though comes with many caveats; the average price of the drives is exorbitant - in the thousands of dollars. It is a linear storage technology which means that it can take time to retrieve ...

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

"Storage components" include flash drives, hard disk drives, optical drives, RAID controllers and tape drives. "Storage systems" include disk arrays, fabric-attached storage, IP storage ...