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

It is not clear how DOGE will save $1 million per year conventing from magnetic tape unless it is converting to more modern magnetic tape for archive storage.

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

The latest embodiment of his comic book fantasies (he described himself as "dark, gothic MAGA" in the run-up to the US ...

Though we have fingernail-sized micro-SD cards that can store 1TB now and consumer SSDs that can transfer data at over 14 MB/s, older magnetic storage media like HDDs and tape remain on the menu.

Abstract: On May 21, 1952, the International Business Machines Corporation announced the IBM Model 726 Tape Unit with the IBM Model 701 Defense Calculator, marking the transition from punched-card ...