If you think of a 1960s mainframe computer, it’s likely that your mental image includes alongside the cabinets with the blinkenlights, a row of reel-to-reel tape drives. These refrigerator-sized ...

In the 80s, Data point sold a tape drive emulator that connected their Data point 2200 desktop networked computers to a mainframe emulating both IBM tape drives and a IBM 1403 line printer.

Mitch Seigle of Spectra Logic talks about tape drives' role in AI and data storage and protection with theCUBE's Christophe ...

If you've got some old memories locked away on a VHS tape that you've been meaning to retrieve, it may seem impossible at a glance. You can't exactly feed a reel of magnetic tape into a drive on ...

For five years, a group of self-described techno-archaeologists working in an old, abandoned McDonald's have been on a mission: to recover and digitize forgotten photos taken in the ‘60s by a ...

“You get one stream of data out of one tape drive, you access the data, you have to wait a little while but it’s still coming back to you pretty fast: 1,000 megabits per second, compressed ...