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 ...

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.

Hard disk drives sure have come a long way, baby. In the 1950s, storage hardware was measured in feet—and in tons. Back then, the era’s state-of-the-art computer drive was found in IBM’s ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Magnetic tape storage has a long history as a storage medium, being the primary way to store computer data from the 1960s to the 1980s. More recently, tape has been most closely associated with ...

A hard drive, also known as a hard disk drive, is a storage device used on many computers that's prone to failure but offers high performance.

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

A full DNA computer is a step closer, thanks to a new technology that could store petabytes of data in DNA for thousands or even millions of years. The system can also process data, as ...