but you won’t find a tape drive in a modern consumer computer. That’s not likely to change but IBM is pushing the envelope to make a tape drive that will be smaller and more economical than ...

In terms of costs, storing data on tape is pennies per gigabyte and when not in use, tape requires no energy unlike hard ...

When you think of mainframes, you probably think of spinning tape drives, reams of computer cards, and text-only, ...

It proved to be less expensive but slower than drum memory, while being faster and more expensive than tape drives. The first commercial hard disk drive was introduced in 1956 as part of the IBM ...

IBM's second successful commercial computer ... A fully equipped 1401 had 16KB of six-bit core memory and six tape drives. All input was on punch cards, and all output was printed or punched ...