[MattisLind] spent one and a half years to complete restoration of a Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-11/04 including peripherals like a TU60 tape drive and a LA30P Decwriter printing terminal.

When it comes to cheap but massive data storage, magnetic tape is still the favoured choice of data centre managers. But its ...

If your driver already measures ultra high for MOI, three one-inch strips of lead tape might make it non-conforming. And the ...

Starting in the 1980s, internal and external tape drives were occasionally used with personal computers. By the late 1990s, personal computer tape backup was largely abandoned due to CD-ROMs and ...

This was further exacerbated by the behaviour of the DEC TK50Z tape drive, which needed to shuttle the whole length of the tape as part of its normal operation. A temporary solution was to bake ...