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Magnetic tape has been used as a storage medium continuously from one of the first contemporary computers onwards – the UNIVAC, in 1951. That gives it 60 years of unbroken use, from gigantic ...

A team of researchers led by Jingyu Zhang from the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Center and Eindhoven's University of Technology have successfully wrote and read 300KB worth of ...

Wait a moment — have I stepped into a time machine? We all know that magnetic tape is so….yesterday. Isn’t all storage these days on solid-state or hard-disk drive (HDD) memory? The answer is yes, it ...