Magnetic tape, 3M, 6250 CPI for computer tape drives, used as storage media between 1970 and 1990 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This year, 2012, digital plastic substrate magnetic tape turns 60 years ...

Unlike the platters in computer hard drives that feature ultra-thin layers of various metals to store tiny magnetic charges, tape needs to be able to flex, bend, and be wound onto a spool.

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Tape is the oldest computer storage medium still in use. It was first put to work on a UNIVAC computer in 1951. But although tape sales have been falling since 2008 and dropped by 14% in 2012 ...

Magnetic tape data storage dates back to the 1950s, and its cutting-edge status lasted for several decades.

US GSA has decommissioned 14,000 tapes and an unknown amount of tape drives The data was moved to a new, unknown media platform that appears to have WORM capabilities US GSA claims to save $1M per ...

Magnetic tape's high storage capacity and relatively low cost per gigabyte make it an attractive option for long-term data retention and archival purposes.

Currently, magnetic storage is still manufactured as hard disk drives (HDDs) but you won’t find a tape drive in a modern consumer computer.

Despite being older than the PC, magnetic tape storage is far from dead, in fact it's growing with 153,000,000 terabytes of the fragile stuff shipped in 2023 News By Nick Evanson published May 28 ...

BASF decided the best way to escape the trappings of its 64-year presence in the magnetic tape market was to sell the entire magnetics business to Turkey’s Raks Electronics Sanayi ve Ticaret AS.

Imagine a computer equipped with shock-proof memory that's 100,000 times faster and consumes less power than current hard disks. EPFL Professor Mathias Kläui is working on a new kind of ...