UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again

UNIX V4, the first ever version of the UNIX operating system in which the kernel was written in the then-new C programming ...
ZDNet

From paper tape to a patched-together Altair 8800, the story of my first computers

In this age of smartphone zombification, it's hard to believe that there was once a time when most people had never seen or touched a computer. When I grew up in the 1970s, we didn't have a computer.
The Business Journals

Computer tape theft exposing personal info of 5 million people? ‘Hardly a black-ops caper,’ judge says

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The 2011 theft of computer tapes from a government ...
New Atlas

IBM sets new tape storage record

For many people, tape memory is a dead technology found only on reel-to-reel computers in old 1960s movies. However, it’s still a major storage medium and a new breakthrough by IBM Research and Fuji ...
Digital Journal

IBM develops computer tape capable of storing 220TB of data

The company worked with Fujifilm to create the tape. It represents an 88-fold improvement over current “Tape-Open 6” class tape cartridges that hold 2.5TB of data and a 22-fold improvement on IBM’s ...
Computer Weekly

In-house tape vs cloud archiving: What are the pros and cons?

Tape has been the medium of choice for backup and archive in enterprise organisations for more than half a century. This isn’t surprising, as magnetic tape has been at the forefront of data storage ...