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

Linear Tape-Open (LTO) is the main format on the market and is backed by tech giants such as Fuji, Sony, HPE and IBM ... You can also physically make it WORM), which makes it read only and magnetic ...

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

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

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?

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 ...