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 ...

If you want to keep up with the times, stop saying these words that make you sound old—stat! Are you dating yourself? Thanks to technology and social media, the English language is changing faster ...

To understand why CD engineers opted for phase recording for CD-RW rewritable media and its successors, instead of magneto-optical or magnetic recording, it is necessary to analyze the factors that ...

Serveal notable industries and organizations still use floppy disks, including the U.S. FAA and San Francisco's Muni Metro ...

As the digital world demands greater data storage and faster access times, magnetic memory technologies have emerged as a promising frontier. However, conventional magnetic memory devices have an ...

Sphotonix’s 5D optical storage media has appeared on the latest installment of Mission Impossible A rare feat for a new product, its appearance is central to the movie plot Like Microsoft Silica ...

Magnetic tape storage is something many of us will associate with 8-bit microcomputers or 1960s mainframe computers, but it still has a place in the modern data center for long-term backups. It&#82… ...

US air traffic control systems are to get an upgrade, finally ending the use of 30-year-old operating system Windows 95, and dispensing with floppy disks and paper strips in the process. On Wednesday, ...

"No more floppy disks or paper strips." It's a goal that has eluded all of Rocheleau's predecessors. Walking into many of the nation's air traffic control towers is like stepping back in time.

Phase-change materials are some of the most promising materials for data-storage applications. They are already used in rewriteable optical data storage and offer great potential as an emerging ...