Elon Musk's organization aims to save $1 million annually by converting government records to digital formats. That switch ...

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

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 ...

The announcement presumably referred to magnetic Linear Tape-Open (LTO) drives and cartridges, a storage medium invented in 1952. Although consumer devices have long since transitioned to hard ...

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

A machine that records audio or video onto magnetic tape. A tape "recorder" or tape "deck" generally refers to earlier analog devices, such as a VHS tape recorder. Until the 1990s, analog audio ...

An 8mm-wide magnetic tape technology that is used in analog ... in 1984 and turned it into a high-performance digital storage device in 1987. The cartridges held 2.5GB, a breakthrough for the ...

Tape storage devices are constantly being refreshed with ... and consumer SSDs that can transfer data at over 14 MB/s, older magnetic storage media like HDDs and tape remain on the menu.

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 ...