A new nanotechnology take on the old punch-card storage system has enabled IBM Corp. researchers to demonstrate a data storage density of one trillion bits (1T bit) per square inch — 20 times higher ...

This key-driven, manual verifier has 15 black rubber keys. Twelve are for the 12 columns on a punch card. These are labeled from 0 to 9, X, and blank. Two other keys move the card one space, and the ...

Before the cloud took over as the prime form of data storage, these old-school devices were essential when it came to storing ...

IBM's SAGE air defense system looks like it belongs in a Cold War-era James Bond film, but this is a real IBM ad from the 1960s, courtesy of the Internet Archive. For great color photographs of the ...

Earlier this month, IBM celebrated its 100th birthday. It wasn't called IBM back in 1911, though: It was lumbered with the high-tech-for-its-time name of Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, the ...