These days, data is as likely as not to be “in the cloud.” Otherwise, it’s probably on a USB flash drive or SD card. But in the old days, paper tape was a widespread way to store and retrieve data. A ...

Collectors are searching for antique and vintage items related to discontinued technology -- old computers, transistor radios, early television sets, computer games and even old typewriters, fans and ...

Back before the days of 8 inch floppy disks, storing computer programs was much more primitive than even a stack of punch cards. The earliest general purpose computers used paper tape, a strip of ...

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 ...

Reel-to-reel tape machines are hugely outdated these days. Justifiable reasons to use them are dwindling. Unless you are like Wouter van Veldhoven, in which case you are a tape-machine wielding ...