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.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...