With arrival of CDC 6600 at CERN in January 1965, there came the first half-inch wide 7-tracks tape units.

A plane of magnetic core memory with 64x64 bits (4Kb) as used in a CDC 6600. The very first CDC 6600

This magnetic disk was one of three which interfaced with various Control Data machines. This single

IBM 3850 MSS mass storage system (simply known as MSS) was first announced by IBM in late 1974 with data cartridges in form of circular cylinders able to store 50 megabytes of data.

Homegrown networking technology pre-dating the internet.

This is a CERNnet card developed and built

10BASE5 Thick Ethernet Cable, 10Mbit/sec.

In the 1980s and early 1990's, Ethernet became more

Oracle StorageTek T10000T2 cartridge has total capacity of 5 TB. It is actually manufactured by Fuji

The most powerful IBM computer system of its time, the IBM 3090 high-end processor of the IBM 308X computer series incorporated one-million-bit memory chips.

The first website at CERN - and in the world - was dedicated to the World Wide Web project itself and was hosted on Berners-Lee's NeXT computer.

The 3390 disks rotated faster than those in the previous model 3380. Faster disk rotation reduced

A modern 2.8TB/s router, the backbone of our internet connectivity. This model was in service at

These are sample fibre optic cables which are used for networking. 

Optical fibers are widely used

This model was a disk storage server used in the Data Centre up until 2012.

Each tray contains a

The CERN computer centre has hundreds of racks lke these. They are over a million times more

This particular object was used up until 2012 in the Data Centre. It slots into one of the Disk