Taking on a refrigerator-sized minicomputer is not for the faint-hearted, but [Usagi Electric] has done it with a DEC PDP-11/44. He’s not doing it in half measures either, for his machine is tricked ...

There used to be software that can let you access tape drives with drive letters but AFAIK, they were for Windows 9x and no updated versions exist that will run on Win2k.

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 ...

Magnetic storage is quickly becoming an antiquated technology but IBM may have given it a few more years. Currently, magnetic storage is still manufactured as hard disk drives (HDDs) but you won’t ...

Suppose for a moment that a virus has infected your entire computer network. It has quickly spread through every employee’s workstation, into every document and database file. All your work, all your ...

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 ...

The maker of tape backup products signs an agreement to acquire Benchmark Storage, a partner that sold a type of tape drive Quantum developed. Stephen Shankland Former Principal Writer Stephen ...

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 ...

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 ...