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Magnetic Tapes: An Attractive Solution
Magnetic tape reels took up more space than other forms of digital memory, but their stability and favorable cost-per-bit ratio made them a popular early storage medium for enterprise computer backups ...
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Making Memories: 7900 and 7970 Drives
The 7900 disc drive (shown here in the top righthand section of the 2100 computer system) and 7970 tape drive (in the center of the righthand side) were the first memory products in their respective c ...
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Roll Tape: HP 3950 Recording System
The 3950 was Hewlett-Packard’s first magnetic tape recording system. It was designed for instrumentation recording, but in the coming years Hewlett-Packard tape reels would be among the first data sto ...
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Shrinking a Backup System: HP DAT PC
The HP DAT PC backup system shrank the technology that powered large magnetic data tape reels down to a much easier storage size.
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Shuffling the System: Modular Systems
As minicomputers changed the way offices did business, Hewlett-Packard systems coordinated multiple devices with one another to provide optimal memory support for Hewlett-Packard computers. The modula ...
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Smart Storage: StoreOnce
Developed by HP Labs and first introduced in 2010, StoreOnce technology, shown here in the HP B6200 48TB StoreOnce Backup System, reined in the explosive growth in Data Center storage needs by elimina ...
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The 3.5″ Floppy Disk: HP 9121
Hewlett-Packard’s 9121 drive was among the first devices in the United States to use 3.5″ floppy disk drives. It was also the first Hewlett-Packard product to use a new sort of slim, stackable form fa ...
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The HP 9145A: Backups in a Flash
The 9145A could back up data at double the rate of its immediate predecessors, offering 4MB per minute instead of 2. It did so by using Hewlett-Packard’s newly developed 32-track tape technology, but ...
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The Lighter Side: LightScribe Tech
Not all printing was on paper. Hewlett-Packard’s LightScribe technology allowed users to laser etch their own designs directly onto data storage CDs and DVDs using optical disc writers. LightScribe fa ...
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The Miracle of Moonshot
Based on 10 years of research from HP Labs, Moonshot was the world’s first software-defined server. A fundamental disruption in server design, Moonshot servers ran on extreme low-energy microprocessor ...