Many of you will be like me, in that you grew up around computers that stored all data on cassettes or cartridges that held a spool of magnetic tape ... for its gaming and hardware section ...

Accuracy and precision have to be improved as the magnetic particles holding the data get smaller and smaller. Existing hardware won’t be compatible with the new tape cartridges, so, don’t ...

You might be surprised to discover, however, that a hefty chunk of the information we are holding on to today – from backups of your emails and photos to particle collision data from the Large ...

Earlier versions of this system made images with ... times as many magnetic sensors, 256, embedded on a NIST-made silicon chip that serves as a read head in a modified cassette tape deck.

Software and hardware fade out of general use as newer ... one storage device that can save data forever. Options like magnetic tape, Blu-ray Disc, and even DNA may provide stable but relatively ...

Computer networks promise to be cost-saving, but their dependency on energy-consuming data centers and constant replacement of hardware disaffirm the call for frugality. Magnetic tape presents a ...

While part of Ampex, the Magnetic Tape division enjoyed the luxury of close format development with the hardware side of the business ... For one client, we routinely retrieve lost images because ...

Listen to the Computerworld TechCast: Tape Types. For almost as long as computers have existed, magnetic tape has been the backup medium of choice. Tape is inexpensive, well understood and easy to ...

Japanese artist Ei Wada, who was born in 1987, belongs to a generation that spent middle school feverishly poring over cassettes to make mix tapes—until, of course, they were quickly outmoded by ...

Imation has become the first company to break the 1TB barrier in magnetic tape storage with a new LTO Ultrium Generation 5 tape cartridge capable of storing 1.5TB of uncompressed data or up to 3TB ...

The use of magnetic tape and other removable magnetic media is now on the wane, leading to scarcity in some cases where manufacture has ceased. Is it possible to produce new magnetic tape if you ...