Tape storage: Just “not dead” or “alive and kicking”?

Good post by Werner Jaeckle (thank you)

Tape storage has been around since more than 60 years now. Since 1952, to be exact, when IBM invented the concept of magnetic tape storage. There have been many great inventions and improvements in that time frame, and although the statement “Tape is dead!” was exclaimed quite regularly over the last two decades, tape storage is still here! And I believe it’s here to stay, at least for as far into the future as I dare to look.

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Posted by rogerluethy on September 30, 2013

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/tape-storage-just-not-dead-or-alive-and-kicking/