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 ...

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.

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 ...

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?

Why it matters: Many users, including staffers at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), likely consider magnetic tape storage severely outdated. Despite being around for several decades ...

A high-capacity data storage system for storing, retrieving, reading and writing multiple magnetic tape cartridges. Also called a "tape automation system," it contains storage racks for holding ...

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has claimed that the US government has saved a million dollars per year “by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes (70-year-old technology for information ...

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 ...

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 Magnetic tape superseded the earlier magnetic wire recorders after World War II because of the ease with which one could splice ...