The US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) boasting the IT team of the US ...

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

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

A Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) social media post boasts of the elimination of tape data storage facilities at ...

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

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

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

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 ...

In February 2025, Musk criticized a federal contract with Iron Mountain to store physical records, labeling it a "time warp" ...

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 ...

How else are you going to have any fun with magnetic tape without ripping out the tape head and running it manually over those silky brown strips? Sure, you can change the playback speed on most ...

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 ...