Herbert's interest is in machines from the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, and he has encountered a lot of software stored on punched paper tape. Wound loosely, there's a good chance the code can still be read ...

For a very long time -- until the 1980s, in fact -- the only way of reading and writing non-volatile data was by controlling magnetism. Punched cards and magnetic tape had their uses for data ...

Since the launch of Computer Weekly in 1966, we have moved from a world of punched cards and paper tape to one where flash and the cloud have revolutionised data storage.

In 1890, Herman Hollerith applied the punch card idea to tabulating US Census data. He founded a company ... The UNIVAC I (1951) started a new trend in data storage: magnetic tape.

Punched paper tape was the main form of data input, and the operator console was an electric typewriter. No screens, no cursor. The CPU (central processing unit) ran at a speed of about 0.1MHz.

With Toshiba’s announcement of an actual shipping laptop with a 128-GB solid-state drive inside, it seems that the hard drive, in portable computers at least, might be in the twilight of its life.

Consumers weren’t likely to be interested in punch cards or paper tape, ... I once tried to build a 8 track tape data storage for my TRS-80 model 1. Never got it to work with any reliability.

(1) See loyalty punch card. (2) An early storage medium made of thin cardboard stock that held data as patterns of punched holes. Also called "punched" cards, each of the 80 or 96 columns held one ...

A Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) social media post boasts of the elimination of tape data storage facilities at the U.S. General Services Administration (GSE). A triumphant Tweet by ...