Tape drives are slow compared to disk drives, but can back up large quantities of data. Today, it's normal to have a 20GB hard drive on a home computer, and hard drives of 160GB or more can be found ...

Remember ticker tape machines? They were used around the late 1800’s/early 1900’s to transmit stock info and commodity prices over telegraph lines. Well, a gentleman by the name of Mr. Adam Vaughan ...

All through the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, magnetic tape formats like the 8-track and cassette were audiophiles’ technology of choice. They played high-resolution tracks, had an impressive dynamic range and ...

Back before the days of 8 inch floppy disks, storing computer programs was much more primitive than even a stack of punch cards. The earliest general purpose computers used paper tape, a strip of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The first practical (i.e. commercially viable) electronic recordings for television were shown ...