The comment doesn’t include any context as to what tape technology was used (reel-to-reel or cartridge), how long it took to ...

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

Half a century later, despite the invention of solid-state hard drives, magnetic tape remains surprisingly well-used in ...

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

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 ...

Earlier this month, DOGE announced on X it would save $1 million annually by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes of government records into “permanent modern digital records.” The problem?

Iron is also in a mineral called loadstone which is the most magnetic naturally-occurring mineral. Trace or draw the little skater shown in the drawing, or use the drawing in the PDF. Bend the feet so ...

London-based Magnetic Scrolls was an early pioneering ... First, he needed to recover a copy of the original source code from the backup tapes. But there was a problem, it turns out that the ...