Will your data still be readable in half a century? The State of Storage As storage media grows denser and more complex over time, it's worth remembering that older formats were sometimes far more ...

Since the dawn of computers, we’ve tried different ways to store data. These days, you grab data over the network, but you probably remember using optical disks, floppies, or, more recently, flash ...

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.

COMMENTARY--I started using computers in 1974, when I was still in high school. My first computer took up an entire room and yet had only five kilobytes of RAM. Punched paper tape was the main form of ...

The relationship of storage to the architecture of computing is all about capacity, latency and throughput. In other words, how much data can be kept, how quickly it can be accessed and at what rate.

Based on the fact that the “More Cool Stuff Page” on my DIY Calculator website contains a rather interesting paper detailing the history of paper tapes and punched cards as mechanisms for storing ...

[Scott M. Baker] wants a paper tape punch for his retrocomputer collection. That’s fine with us, we don’t judge. In fact, these electromechanical peripherals from the past have a lot going for them, ...