Uncoated tape used to separate other sections of tape is called leader. Magnetic tape superseded the earlier magnetic wire recorders after World War II because of the ease with which one could splice ...

It was a British made audio sampler that used the most cutting edge technology available back in 1963… Magnetic tapes. You could record different sounds, music, beats or rhythm onto these ...

Half a century later, magnetic tape remains surprisingly well-used in government. NASA uses it to back up vast amounts of ...

What seems at first like a logical move to modernize the government's archives may in fact be an ill-advised decision.

The US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) boasting the IT team of the US Gerneral Services Administration (GSA) “just saved $1M per year by ...

DOGE recently announced that it has replaced 14,000 magnetic storage tapes used by the US General Services Administration ...

An earlier magnetic tape cartridge technology introduced by ... the first commercial music player for a car. Stereo 8 allowed two stereo recordings on the same tape providing a similar experience ...

Prior to the 1990s, most music industry master recording were stored on magnetic tape in a vault somewhere-you know, so that ...

Commenting on his score, Cage explains: "This is a score (192 pages) for making music on magnetic tape. Each page has two systems comprising eight lines each. These eight lines are eight tracks of ...

The tape is coated with an oxide EMULSION, which when exposed to the variations of the magnetic field at the recording head of a TAPE RECORDER, is arranged in similar variations, each particle of the ...

The first electronic storage medium, magnetic tape is made of flexible plastic with one side coated with a ferromagnetic material. The data are recorded as binary digits (bits) in the form of ...