Throughout the history of computers, one aspect has plagued and restricted its growth more than any other: permanent storage. From the very first computers that used punched cards and tape for ...

Optical storage did evolve-from the early monsters like the 55-pound bruiser mentioned in this story-to magneto optical drives, compact disc drives, writable CDs, rewritable CDs and now DVDs. And some ...

In January, the Computer History Museum will open a new exhibit called “ Revolution: The First 2,000 years of Computing ” that will tell the story of computing from the abacus to the smartphone.

From Paper Tape to Data Sticks: The Evolution of Removable Storage Over the years, people have tried to transfer information from one computer to another in a dizzying number of ways.

Racetrack Memory Will Make Your Computer Smaller, Better, Faster, Stronger Meet the data storage technique of the near future.

Two plastic data packs, one in a blue plastic case and from Control Data, the other in a translucent black plastic case and from WANG. As the name data pack suggests, the objects are layered groupings ...

The era of data-centric computing is here -- and, fortunately, data storage is more cost effective than ever. But we'll see more change in the next decade than we've ever seen before in computer ...