IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. 1. The IBM 1401 central processing ...

The IBM 1401 is undeniably a classic computer. One of IBM’s most “affordable” mainframes, it ruled the small business computing world of the 1960’s. Unfortunately, computers aren’t often thought of as ...

This year's Tony Sale Award, presented by the Computer Conservation Society (CCS), has been shared by the restoration of two IBM 1401 business computers from the 1950s at the Computer History Museum ...

Many in IT believe the future of storage is entirely disk and tape "is just for archiving" — but not IBM. On Wednesday, the company launched three new tape drives, including a tape virtualisation ...

A Montreal-based creator modeled a miniature replica of IBM's iconic 1401 computer system. Nicolas Temese told Business Insider that the scale model includes everything from the setup at the time: a ...

IBM announced the general availability of the industry’s first magnetic tapes and drives based on the LTO-9 Ultrium specification for massive data capacity and resilience. The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) 9 ...

IBM will sell Exabyte's M2 line of tape storage drives for Big Blue's iSeries line of special-purpose computers, the companies said Wednesday. The move expands an alliance that began in September in ...

Back in the day: Consumers stopped using magnetic tape storage so long ago that many reading this are likely too young to know what it is. However, its ability to store massive amounts of data on ...

Much of the analysis about the notion of IBM buying Sun Microsystems has focused on fashionable things like open-source software. Tape drives, by contrast, seem an artifact from a bygone era. But they ...