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

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 ...

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

The comment doesn’t include any context as to what tape technology was used (reel-to-reel or cartridge), how long it took to ...

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

Cassette and VHS tapes once ruled the world of entertainment — but, just a half-century after they came on the scene, they’ve ...

But magnetic storage used to be fairly mainstream back in the 1980s for all kinds of computer programs. Plenty of computers used standard cassette tapes for this too but you couldn’t just copy ...

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 ...

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