It took careful work to recover the UNIX V4 operating system from the 9-track magnetic tape. The software is foundational for ...

I recently uncovered an old computer sitting around with a tape drive labeled "Colorado 250MB". I fished it out, and found a serial number, but could not find a webpage for any hardware company named ...

Ahh yes... the proverbial "cover your butt" of the home and enterprise computer user, the tape backup drive. I know what you are thinking. You're thinking "I don't ...

I have an HP Dat 72 tape drive in my SQL server and the tape WILL NOT EJECT.<BR><BR>My backups have been failing because of this.<BR><BR>SQL Server can't read the drive as it times out, so I tried ...

Back in the day: Consumers stopped using magnetic tape storage so long ago that many reading this are likely too young to know what it is. However, its ability to store massive amounts of data on ...

You may think that computer tape memories died out before Rubik's cubes came in, but IBM and Fujifilm have teamed up to develop a record-breaking new sixth-generation tape storage system that can ...

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 ...

Ecrix Corp. now has a high-performance ATAPI or IDE version of its VXA-1 tape drive available. In fact, President Kelly Beavers said the VXA-1 is the only high-capacity, high-performance tape drive ...