Though it is many decades since paper tape was commonly used as a data input or storage medium, it still holds a fascination for many who work with computers. Over the years we’ve featured more than ...

Will your data still be readable in half a century? The State of Storage As storage media grows denser and more complex over time, it's worth remembering that older formats were sometimes far more ...

If you were one of the earliest of early adopters in the home computing revolution, you might have had to settle for paper tape mass storage. It was slow, it was bulky, but it was what you had, and ...