Thus begins the history of removable computer storage, which in many ways is ... Most of the earliest computers used spools of paper tape, which stored information via punch holes.

Will your data still be readable in half a century? The State of Storage As storage media grows denser and more complex over ...

The relationship of storage to the architecture of ... Having said that, there were adverts for paper tape in early 1970s copies of Computer Weekly that felt confident enough to trumpet a claimed ...

If you were one of the earliest of early adopters in the home computing revolution, you might have had to settle for paper tape mass storage. It was slow, it was bulky, but it was what you had ...

The assembled paper tape reader as seen from the front ... which for this computer system with its lack of storage memory means that the instructions are fed into the system directly, with the ...

Feature The future of archival data storage is tape, more tape, and then possibly glass-based tech, with DNA and other ...

Magnetic tape data storage may have been around for more than half a century, but systems administrators will be stuck with it for some time, according to one of Sun Microsystems' top storage ...

It also had a paper tape reader attached, like a side car on a motorcycle. TechRepublic: The computer that helped ... with a staggering 1K of RAM storage. None of these parts worked together.

Unlike the platters in computer hard drives ... even more data onto a piece of tape that looks similar to what you’d find in an old VHS cassette tape? As a paper recently published in IEEE ...

In this special guest feature, Molly Presley from the Active Archive Alliance reflects on how the unstructured data storage industry has evolved and ... Today Spectra Logic announced enhancements to ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. In 1952, Big Blue introduced the IBM 726 as a new way ...

cold storage, and backup data It’s astonishing to think that tape has been used as a means of computer data storage for nearly 65 years. Originally developed for audio storage and subsequently adapted ...