Elon Musk's organization aims to save $1 million annually by converting government records to digital formats. That switch ...

What seems at first like a logical move to modernize the government's archives may in fact be an ill-advised decision.

Currently, magnetic storage is still manufactured as hard disk drives (HDDs) but you won’t find a tape drive in a modern consumer computer. That’s not likely to change but IBM is pushing the ...

An early stand-alone data entry machine that stored data on magnetic tape for computer entry. Introduced by Mohawk Data Sciences in the mid-1960s, it was the first major advancement in data entry ...

Half a century later, magnetic tape remains surprisingly well-used in government. NASA uses it to back up vast amounts of data recorded by its satellites. The IRS stores lots of its taxpayer records ...

Uncoated tape used to separate other sections of tape is called leader. Magnetic tape superseded the earlier magnetic wire recorders after World War II because of the ease with which one could splice ...

As you might expect, the computer was made to be highly reliable and monitored several safety systems and special isolated software. There are plenty of Soviet teletypes, magnetic tape drives ...

Storage was magnetic tape reels that held 1MB of data at a density of 128 cpi. In 1952, the computer predicted Eisenhower's victory over Stevenson, and, for a while, UNIVAC was synonymous with ...