OVER FIFTY years ago, the existence of government records on magnetic tape brought down a president. In 1971 the Secret Service installed Sony open-reel tape recorders throughout the White House ...

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including staffers at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), likely consider magnetic tape storage severely outdated.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 ...

The post by DOGE features a Community Note highlighting a few reasons to use magnetic tape, including the fact that they can store data much more efficiently and offer a physical “airgap” so ...

US GSA has decommissioned 14,000 tapes and an unknown amount of tape drives The data was moved to a new, unknown media platform that appears to have WORM capabilities US GSA claims to save $1M per ...

US GSA has decommissioned 14,000 tapes and an unknown amount of tape drives The data was moved ... “just saved $1M per year by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes (70 yr old technology for ...

Afficionados of vintage electric organs will know about the Melotron, an instrument from the 1960s that had pre-recorded sounds on a bank of tape loops. A real Melotron in working order will set y ...

FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Government Efficiency launched a website where Americans can directly report and suggest how to deregulate policies within the federal government, Fox News Digital ...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Jurors in the Aaron Thomas trial on Thursday heard a tape recording of the former North Kingstown high school coach repeatedly denying to police investigators that he conducted ...

Afficionados of vintage electric organs will know about the Melotron, an instrument from the 1960s that had pre-recorded sounds on a bank of tape loops. A real Melotron in working order will set y ...

including prepaid phone cards and the mechanical “switches” that recorded call logs on magnetic tape and sometimes suffered outages. The defense attorney noted that Robert Atrops allowed ...

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