With the resurgence of vinyl records over the years, the popularity of other types physical media are on the rise — namely CDs and cassette tapes. So if you collect physical media, then you also ...

In context: Researchers have long explored DNA's unique properties as a medium for digital storage. So far, the experiments have fallen short of practical applications. However, new DNA-based ...

While the future of storage on your laptop is undoubtedly solid state, it’s more difficult to predict how the huge tranches of data in server farms will be housed in the future. Recent suggestions, ...

Related to a question another poster asked, I always wondered what the storage capacity of a standard cassette tape would be in mb's. I had a VIC-20 years ago but can't remember the capabilities of ...

THE cassette tape is about to make a comeback, in a big way. From the updates posted by Facebook’s 1 billion users to the medical images shared by healthcare organisations worldwide and the rise of ...

Before [Woz] created the elegant Disk II interface for the Apple II, and before Commodore brute-forced the creation of the C64 5 1/4″ drive, just about every home computer used cassette tapes for ...

DAT was supposed to replace cassettes, but it became the backbone of 1990s server backups instead ...