The relationship of storage to the architecture of computing is all about capacity, latency and throughput. In other words, how much data can be kept, how quickly it can be accessed and at what rate.

A single, simple USB-enabled 8‑bit microcontroller from Microchip’s PIC18 family was used as the brain behind the project. As ...

Chris Fenton hopes to build a working electromechanical computer out of parts made by a 3D printer. He has currently developed a working prototype of a punch card reader. Chris Fenton hopes to build a ...

Since the dawn of computers, we’ve tried different ways to store data. These days, you grab data over the network, but you ...

(1) See loyalty punch card. (2) An early storage medium made of thin cardboard stock that held data as patterns of punched holes. Also called "punched" cards, each of the 80 or 96 columns held one ...

We think of punched cards as old-fashioned, but still squarely part of the computer age. Turns out, cards were in use way before they got conscripted by computers. Jacquard looms are one famous ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. These materials come from an advanced ...

This is the 1st computer program,the 1st piece of software,that I wrote. Written in Fortran during a programming course taken as an optional extra after my finals of a physics/maths degree at London ...