by Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli, 34)
One of the most enduring forms of storage! Started in the 1950s, but still used in the 2020s as the cheapest (and slowest access) archival method. Robot arms are needed to load and read them nowadays.
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Web camera mounted insite an IBM TS4500 tape library by lkaptoor (2020)
Source. Footage dated 2018.

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