In this age of smartphone zombification, it's hard to believe that there was once a time when most people had never seen or touched a computer. When I grew up in the 1970s, we didn't have a computer.

Magnetic tape is seeing something of a revival as a storage medium. The need to protect data against malware, as well as renewed interest in disaster recovery and business continuity, have put tape ...

The following script is of "The Martinsburg Monster," which aired on March 31, 1970. Harry Reasoner is the correspondent. All the rest of the year, we praise or curse the kind of government we've got.

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 ...

For many people, tape memory is a dead technology found only on reel-to-reel computers in old 1960s movies. However, it’s still a major storage medium and a new breakthrough by IBM Research and Fuji ...

The company worked with Fujifilm to create the tape. It represents an 88-fold improvement over current “Tape-Open 6” class tape cartridges that hold 2.5TB of data and a 22-fold improvement on IBM’s ...

Using magnetic tape for storing duplicate copies of hard disk files. Starting in the 1980s, internal and external tape drives were occasionally used with personal computers. By the late 1990s, ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The 2011 theft of computer tapes from a government ...

Tape has been the medium of choice for backup and archive in enterprise organisations for more than half a century. This isn’t surprising, as magnetic tape has been at the forefront of data storage ...