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 good us ...
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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 S ...
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My First Gaming PC: A Love Story

Source: Kotaku

In the fall of 1992, my father drove me to a nondescript computer store in Alpharetta, Georgia and changed my life. Amidst the hum and buzz of countless white and beige boxes I found my first gaming PC. I wasn't a newcomer to keyboard set, bu ...
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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 re ...
Full article at: TechWeb  More like this  4 days ago, 8:23am CDT

How Pixar’s Toy Story 2 was deleted twice, once by technology and again for its own good

Source: The Next Web

“That’s when we first noticed it, with Woody.” “[Larry Cutler] was in that directory and happened to be talking about installing a fix to Woody or Woody’s hat. He looked at the directory and it had like 40 files, ...
Full article at: The Next Web  More like this  6 days ago, 8:06pm CDT

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 as the “defense calculator” ...
Full article at: The Register  More like this  6 days ago, 7:31pm CDT