It's 2025 and after almost 20 years, Sony has announced that it is ending Blu-ray media production as well as MiniDiscs, ...

Spectra Logic has launched its OSW-2400 Optical SAS Switch to support data center tape storage connectivity. According to 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 ...

half-high form-factor tape drive. The device is part of the company's DLT family of storage solutions and builds on existing DLT technology. The VS160 marks a breakthrough in capacity and ...

And the idea of being able to build new instruments to create it, like this paper-tape programmable music box (YouTube, embedded below), is beyond impressive. The build video hints at more details ...

From there, [iot4c] fitted the Raspberry Pi, a USB hard drive, and a YDS-5A DC-DC converter to power them. Depending on what the drive setup looks like, it might also make sense to add a USB ...

A Python module for controlling magnetic tape drives under Linux. The module can perform tape drive operation, just like mt variants (mt-st, mt-gnu, etc.) under Unix-like OSs. For example, a user can ...

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