Bop update 11/26/2019
Birds Of Prey's Computers and Data Storage So in the web-comic there will be a degeneracy in how data is stored and accessed. First of all the machines will be much more retrograded to the older machines that you would be seeing in older times but still hold as much as any modern SSD or flash drive in our modern age. They may look old but they access data as quickly. Tape and Reel-to-Reel data storage In the late 50's the use of magnetic tape became more common as the the use of it becomes more used to store data in magnetic tape reels and eventually spools that were introduced in 1974 with the IBM 3850 Mass storage systems (Fig.1), and later the tape cartridges with the 3480 Fig.1 But the most iconic ones are those massive Reel-To-Reel tape spools that you'd see in old TV shows, movies and in offices from the late 20th century. (fig.2) these spools were capable of handling hundreds of Gigabytes of data...