Magnetic tape storage is something many of us will associate with 8-bit microcomputers or 1960s mainframe computers, but it still has a place in the modern data center for long-term backups. It’s ...

The computer's storage media prior to solid state drives (SSDs). Magnetic tape and disks were developed in the 1950s and commonly used together in companies for decades. Tape was the primary medium ...

The Massachusetts-based DATAmatic Division of Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company sold one of its room-sized DATAmatic 1000 systems to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, where it was installed ...

Many think magnetic tape used for storing computer data is a dead medium, but it’s making a big comeback, with predictions that one day a tape will each store a hefty 400 terabytes of data. Just one ...

WHEN physicists switch on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), between three and six gigabytes of data spew out of it every second. That is, admittedly, an extreme example. But the flow of data from ...

Magnetic tape may seem like a pretty antiquated data storage technology, but its density and capacity is still hard to beat for big data centers. Now, IBM and Fujifilm have teamed up to create a ...

At my first office job in the mid-80s, we backed up the computer every night on reels of magnetic tape. Here, in a scene from a slide show of 1980s IBM mainframe computer ops (all set to a snappy ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This transistorized unit was used to ...

In the wonder world of electronics, much of the magic is performed by a simple looking device—a plastic ribbon covered with particles of iron oxide. Its name: magnetic tape. On its surface a fantastic ...

Sony has developed a magnetic tape material that can store data at 148 gigabits per square inch, roughly 74 times the density of standard tapes. The technology represents the world’s highest recording ...