Tape drives are slow compared to disk drives, but can back up large quantities of data. Today, it's normal to have a 20GB hard drive on a home computer, and hard drives of 160GB or more can be found ...

IK Multimedia’s T-RackS Tape Machine Collection is here to bring the sound and character of four classic tape machines to your DAW: the Ampex 440B, Studer A80, MCI JH24 and Revox PR99. The collection ...

Responding to what it calls a phoenix-like rise in demand for quarter inch tapes, high-end audio brand Thorens has announced a new reel-to-reel developed with Germany's Ballfinger. The TM 1600 will ...

The first practical (i.e. commercially viable) electronic recordings for television were shown more than 50 years ago at NAB in 1956. Later that year, CBS became the first user when “Douglas Edwards ...

Remember ticker tape machines? They were used around the late 1800’s/early 1900’s to transmit stock info and commodity prices over telegraph lines. Well, a gentleman by the name of Mr. Adam Vaughan ...

A technophile has put a modern twist on Thomas Edison’s famous ticker tape machine - by creating one that prints tweets. Adam Bautham replicated Edison’s invention - launched in 1869 to print stocks ...

There's no doubt that digital music formats offer a convenient way to listen to lots of music on the move. Factor in on-demand streaming services and you don't even have to worry about running out of ...

An early stand-alone data entry machine that stored data on magnetic tape for computer entry. Introduced by Mohawk Data Sciences in the mid-1960s, it was the first major advancement in data entry ...