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Was tape ever widely used by consumers? I remember my father buying a tape drive about the time Windows 95 came out and using it to back up the family PC. Was t
by jareds 12y ago
Was tape ever widely used by consumers? I remember my father buying a tape drive about the time Windows 95 came out and using it to back up the family PC. Was this a common thing at that time or was it just the fact that he was a computer teacher and technically inclined?
- heartbreak 12y agoI remember my father backing up the accounting data of the family business to tape at the end of each month. He did that for several years before eventually replacing the tapes with flash drives.
- mbreese 12y agoAbout the same time, I had a tape drive for the same purpose. It wasn't used much, but was a nice backup. At the time, it was the only cost effective way to backup a PC. Now, drives and cloud storage are cheap enough that tape inly has an advantage when storing/backing up "really big data". My old university has a large distributed tape system for long term storage on the hundreds of petabytes scale.
- Avshalom 12y agoNot proper tape but the zx spectrum used consumer cassette tapes. Before my time but I've heard some radio shows.used to broadcast programs and a couple albums came with programs as a track