If you think of a 1960s mainframe computer, it’s likely that your mental image includes alongside the cabinets with the blinkenlights, a row of reel-to-reel tape drives. These refrigerator-sized units ...

With a compact 3.5-in. drive form factor and an 8-mm media format, the AIT-4 tape drive features up to 200 Gbytes of native storage capacity and a sustained native transfer rate of up to 24 Mbytes/s.

Not to start a debate in the comments or anything, but what would you say was the first microcomputer, or personal computer? We suppose the answer depends on your definition. Some would argue that the ...