The US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) boasting the IT team of the US ...

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

5 mil where 1 mil = 1/1000 inch) for different purposes, which now include video and digital recording. The tape is coated with an oxide EMULSION, which when exposed to the variations of the magnetic ...

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

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

It is not clear how DOGE will save $1 million per year conventing from magnetic tape unless it is converting to more modern ...

Currently, magnetic storage is still manufactured as hard disk drives (HDDs) but you won’t find a tape drive in a modern consumer computer. That’s not likely to change but IBM is pushing the ...

London-based Magnetic Scrolls was ... enough data to be read from the tapes to recover several games worth of code, ready for the re-releasing process. The video after the break shows [Rob Jarratt ...

5 mil where 1 mil = 1/1000 inch) for different purposes, which now include video and digital recording ... (which breaks when pulled). Uncoated tape used to separate other sections of tape is called ...

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 ...

The mechanism that reads and writes magnetic tape as it moves past. Quality tape recorders have three heads: play (read), record (write) and erase. Many consumer products have only two ...