Recently, a Reddit user discovered a rare RCA Spectra 70/35 computer control panel from 1966 in their family's old collapsed ...

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

Mark is a tech journalist specializing in AI, FinTech, CleanTech, and Cybersecurity. He graduated with honors from the Ryerson School of Journalism and studied under… Storage devices evolved from ...

Unlike a hard disk, data on tape have to be read sequentially, which means reaching a specific detail is slow. It requires specialist storage and equipment to read. But there are also good reasons ...

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 ...

There’s a super handy wrapping paper storage box available on Amazon that ... as well as two clear pockets for bags, bows, ribbons, tape, gift tags, and scissors. The box features two hands ...

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 ...

The kirigami-inspired mechanical computer uses ... approach to data storage. The computer design is inspired by kirigami, the Japanese art of cutting and folding paper. It also allows data to ...

Magnetic tape storage has a long history as a storage medium, being the primary way to store computer data from the 1960s to the 1980s. More recently, tape has been most closely associated with ...

In these contexts, robotics streamlines operations and increase efficiency, and automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS) are at the heart of this technological shift, exemplifying the transition ...

In context: While consumers are mostly dealing with SSDs and HDDs for their storage needs these days, tape-based solutions are still the way to go for archiving the massive amounts of data that ...