While magnetic-core memory replaced magnetic drums for a computer's working memory (RAM), magnetic tape was still the only option for long-term storage. What we needed, according to IBM ...

Magnetic tape storage is something many of us will ... storage tech that would spring to mind when considering a relay computer, but that’s just what [DiPDoT] has done by giving his machine ...

The IBM 726 digital tape drive was introduced in 1952 to provide larger amounts of digital storage for computers, in particular IBM’s 701 computer. Before the introduction of magnetic tape ...

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 ...

Yes, magnetic tape, kind of like what’s spooled inside ... a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. HDD writes data not in linear paths, but in ...

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.

Currently, magnetic storage is still manufactured as hard disk drives (HDDs) but you won’t find a tape drive in a modern consumer computer. That’s not likely to change but IBM is pushing the ...

The need for mass storage is reviving a technology which, only a few years ago, seemed destined for the scrapheap: magnetic tape. Tape is the oldest computer storage medium still in use.

Computer systems, on the other hand, are exposed to the entire range of hazards from hardware crashes to hacker attacks. Physical “airgap” of magnetic tapes off-line data storage adds an extra ...

The use of ferromagnetic materials as a medium for data storage is as old as the electronic computer ... the LTO (Linear Tape-Open) Ultrium format and it gets used in magnetic tape cartridges ...