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Sony D-Eight
CERN-OBJ-IT-039 · Pièce · 1987
Fait partie de Heritage Collection

The 8mm backup format is a format for storing magnetic tape data used in computer systems, launched by Exabyte Corporation. It is also known as Data8, often abbreviated to D8 and writes D-Eight on some Sony brand media. The company was formed in order to take the 8 mm video format and make it suitable for data storage. They did this by building a mechanism and a reliable data format that used the common 8 mm video tape technology that was available at the time. This was the first form of helical scanning used commercially for data storage. The ribbon was made vertically and has a length of 112 meters. It was designed to withstand heat and high temperatures. It has been introduced in at CERN in 1994.

Paper Punch Tape
CERN-OBJ-IT-051 · Pièce
Fait partie de Heritage Collection

Physicists coded and recorded their programs through series of holes on punch paper tape or on punched cards. It was popular in the 1970s due to its high throughput speed and low cost, paper tape was one of the original data storage methods for computers. Information was encoded in the distinct pattern of holes punched in the paper; the paper itself was oiled to facilitate being run through the reading mechanism and to prevent tears due to brittleness. Though the paper was cheap, it had low storage capacity (only a few dozen kilobytes per roll) and the machinery involved in punching the holes was quite expensive. Higher capacity alternatives, such as magnetic tape, has get developped.

IBM Storage Disk
CERN-OBJ-IT-071 · Pièce
Fait partie de Heritage Collection

IBM storage disk used in the 70s and 80s. This stack of eight 35 cm disks weighs more than 10 Kg, and can store 320 Megabytes or 34 minutes of music

RPS Micro Diskette
CERN-OBJ-IT-077 · Pièce
Fait partie de Heritage Collection

Small flexible plastic disk covered with a magnetic substance used to record data and computer programs. They can normally contain 1.44 MB of data and they are convenient for moving small amounts of data as they are transportable.

Dual-core Itanium Processor
CERN-OBJ-IT-081 · Pièce · 2006
Fait partie de Heritage Collection

Intel’s first dual-core Itanium processor, code-named "Montecito" is a major release of Intel's Itanium 2 Processor Family, which implements the Intel Itanium architecture on a dual-core processor with two cores per die (integrated circuit). Itanium 2 is much more powerful than its predecessor. It has lower power consumption and thermal dissipation.