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

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 following script is of "The Martinsburg Monster," which aired on March 31, 1970. Harry Reasoner is the correspondent. All the rest of the year, we praise or curse the kind of government we've got.

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 ...

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 ...

Magnetic tape storage is something many of us will associate with 8-bit microcomputers or 1960s mainframe computers, but it still has a place in the modern data center for long-term backups. It’s ...

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 ...

Lost data tape contained information on nearly 500,000 Conn., residents The missing Bank of New York Mellon computer tape reported last week contained information about nearly 500,000 Connecticut ...

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 ...