Wood Cassette Table

Source: Neatorama

After five years of planning and work, Jeff Skierka completed this beautiful 12:1 scale audio cassette tape table. It’s made of maple, walnut and lucite. And presumably magnetic tape. The table is reversible, so you can play both ...
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Supercomputer gets a memory boost with 380 petabytes of magnetic tape

Source: Engadget

Remember the Cray XK6 at the University of Illinois that drives the National Science Foundation's Blue Waters project? Well, it looks like it's getting a little memory upgrade, sorta. We're not talking a slick new SSD here, or even a sw ...
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Making a digital delay from a simple microcontroller

Source: hack a day

If you’d like to start experimenting in DSP, or just want to build a guitar pedal, here’s the project for you. It’s an audio echo using just a microcontroller from the fruitful workshop of [Vinod]. For his circuit, [Vinod] fed the output of a small el ...
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Tape lives! Supercomputer to be built with 380PB of tape storage

Source: Ars Technica

Tape storage isn’t what you’d call cutting-edge technology. Most of us make do with disk, and lust after the speeds of SSD. But tape is still useful when massive amounts of storage are needed, in part because of its low cost. It's being put to g ...
Full article at: Ars Technica  More like this  2 days ago, 5:45pm CDT

Supercomputer to connect to 400PB of storage via Ethernet

Source: NetworkWorld

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is rolling out a storage infrastructure that will include 380 petabytes of magnetic tape capacity and 25 petabytes of online disk storage made up by 17,000 SATA ...
Full article at: NetworkWorld  More like this  2 days ago, 3:26pm CDT

Mobile Wallet Technology: The Giant Killers in the Weeds

Source: The Market Oracle

Shah Gilani writes: When it comes to the revolution in mobile wallet technology, Isis Mobile Wallet is a collaboration between some super-heavyweights. Its founders and main partners are AT ...
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Tape Turns 60, Finds Itself Popular Again

Source: TechWeb

Tape turns 60 years old this month. It was first introduced in the form of those wonderful spinning and juddering reel-to-reel devices that epitomized "computing" in so many Hollywood films. Now, tape is enjoying something of a resurg ...
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BBC radiophonic sound experiment from 1957

Source: Boing Boing

From 1957, "Private Dreams and Public Nightmares," an incredibly weird and fantastic BBC sound experiment by writer Frederick Bradnum, pioneering electronic music composer Daphne Oram, and producer Donald ...
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IBM’s first tape drive turns 60

Source: The Register

The model Model 726 Magnetic tape reader/recorder was announced just a few weeks after IBM did the same for the model 701 computer, the first electronic computer the company produced in quantity. The 701 was also known ...
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