Testing the equipment, [Hans] and his friend found the device simply wouldn’t work; the homemade magnetic tape was simply too thick, and you couldn’t just go out and buy a reel of magnetic tape.

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

An earlier magnetic tape cartridge technology introduced by Lear Jet in 1964 as Stereo 8, although widely known by its 8-track moniker. Stereo 8 was an 8-track version of the 4-track Muntz ...

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

A triumphant Tweet by DOGE says that a million dollars per year will be saved “by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes (70 yr old technology for information storage) to permanent modern digital ...

US GSA has decommissioned 14,000 tapes and an unknown amount of tape drives The data was moved to a new, unknown media platform that appears to have WORM capabilities US GSA claims to save $1M per ...

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 ...