#magnetictape — Public Fediverse posts

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Front cover of the book "Sound and Vision" by Peter E. M. Sharp, published in 1968 by Macdonald & Co.

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #1960s #60s #sixties #thesixties #nostalgic #nostalgia #1960snostalgia #60snostalgia #1960stechnology #60stechnology #1960svibes #60svibes #taperecorder #magnetictape #reeltoreel #ferrograph #turntable #midcentury #electronics #consumerelectronics

She is the one holding the microphone, enthusiastically recording her beautiful voices onto the tape recorder while I'm sitting beside her. You know, we might spend an entire evening with this and talking about what life must have been like when all these things were new.

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #1960s #60s #sixties #thesixties #nostalgic #nostalgia #1960snostalgia #60snostalgia #1960stechnology #60stechnology #taperecorder #magnetictape #turntable #midcentury #electronics #consumerelectronics

If I imagine me and my girlfriend in the room in the picture, I wouldn't say either of us merely pretending, but it's like back to 1960s, enjoying the moment together because we genuinely love the atmosphere. So, we both love it, we share the same fascination.

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #1960s #60s #sixties #thesixties #nostalgic #nostalgia #1960snostalgia #60snostalgia #1960stechnology #60stechnology #taperecorder #magnetictape #ferrograph #turntable #midcentury #electronics #consumerelectronics

I often imagine that I lived in the 1960s, it's fun. The 1960s always fascinated me,especially its technology. Take a look at the picture, do you know what those things are? Television and radio may be obvious but the others are a reel-to-reel tape recorder and a turntable

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #1960s #60s #sixties #thesixties #nostalgic #nostalgia #1960snostalgia #60snostalgia #1960stechnology #60stechnology #taperecorder #magnetictape #turntable #midcentury #electronics #consumerelectronics

Fujifilm LTO Ultrium 10 40TB tape cartridge arrives in the US proving tape storage is not dead yet

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/04/fujifilm-lto10-40tb-tape/

The #OpenReelEnsemble has made another fun one. This time, they use #magneticTape to play with spoken #Wikipedia articles.
https://youtu.be/M2BrXp3nEPo?si=uxzivqUEvLxoWvu1

Nebel lang – 274
#Ambient #IshmaelCormack #acoustic #drifting #givernywelsch #improvisation #impulse #jazz #magnetictape #nannespringer #photography #piano #print #reeltoreel #triptych #BadHonnef
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) #ccmusic
https://nebellang.bandcamp.com/album/274

Habt ihr schon mal was gehört oder gesehen vom Open Reel Ensemble? Die machen Musik nicht auf sondern mit Magnetbändern. Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-6WfT8RAh4 #rocknroll #openreel #magnetictape

ABS-CBN: Resurrecting nostalgia: Archiving to preserve history before it’s too late. “In the age of streaming, it’s hard to imagine not being able to watch a film again after its theatrical run, or a show after it has aired on television. But almost half a century ago, this was the reality faced by then-high school student Dann Garcia. He observed at the time the dearth in the available […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/13/resurrecting-nostalgia-archiving-to-preserve-history-before-its-too-late-abs-cbn/

"The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced Monday that the General Services Administration converted 14,000 magnetic to digital records, and claimed the process saved a million dollars a year.

@DOGE on X: The @USGSA IT team just saved $1M per year by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes (70 yr old technology for information storage) to permanent modern digital records.
The problem is, magnetic tapes are regarded by storage and archivist professionals as being a stable, reliable, and safe medium for long-term data storage. Just because it’s a 70 year old medium doesn’t mean those records needed a massive overhaul to digital, that it will save any money in the long term, or that the new storage method is better.

Casual storage enjoyers might hear tape and think fragile spools of plastic that can rot or wear out. But digital storage is not necessarily a better option if you’re trying to keep information for years; digital storage rot, or “bit rot,” can affect a hard drive over years of storage, making the data corrupt or inaccessible. This happens when the electrical charge inside a solid-state storage device—like the kind of digital drive we can assume DOGE is talking about—leaks and causes the drive to lose performance."

https://www.404media.co/doge-gsa-magnetic-tape-archives-digital-storage/

#USA #Trump #Musk #DOGE #DigitalStorage #MagneticTape #Archiving #DataStorage

A Fast Rewind to the Era of Tapesponding - Imagine a time before Discord servers and cheap long-distance calls. Back in the 1... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/12/a-fast-rewind-to-the-era-of-tapesponding/ #homeentertainmenthacks #communication #classichacks #longdistance #magnetictape #tapesponding #tapesponding #radiohacks #cassette #social #tapes #reel #tape

A Fast Rewind to the Era of Tapesponding https://hackaday.com/2025/03/12/a-fast-rewind-to-the-era-of-tapesponding/ #homeentertainmenthacks #communication #classichacks #longdistance #magnetictape #tapesponding #tapesponding #RadioHacks #cassette #social #tapes #reel #tape

The tech needed to play analog recordings from the 20th century is disappearing and breaking down. Meet the people trying to salvage history by digitizing old media. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/17/japan/society/magnetic-tape-2025-issue/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #magnetictape #2025issue #festivals #tech #hardware

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Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying
The music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/music-industrys-1990s-hard-drives-like-all-hdds-are-dying/

#MusicIndustry #HardDrives #DataArchiving #Entropy #Storage #Failure #DataLoss #IronMountain #RobertKoszela #Mix #DigitalAudioWorkstations #MagneticTape #SSDs #FloppyDisks #LinearTapeOpen

A Non-Musical Use Case for 8-Track https://hackaday.com/2024/08/28/a-non-musical-use-case-for-8-track/ #classichacks #magnetictape #eight-track #interactive #cassette #8-track #tracks #Games #audio #music #tape

A Non-Musical Use Case for 8-Track - There was a time in the not-too-distant past when magnetic tape was the primary wa... - https://hackaday.com/2024/08/28/a-non-musical-use-case-for-8-track/ #classichacks #magnetictape #eight-track #interactive #cassette #8-track #tracks #games #audio #music #tape

Yes! That's a Cipher 9-track magnetic tape drive! 😊 We've got quite the collection of tapes stocked up. Ever given them a spin for a read?

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #nostalgie #museo #retrocomputing #videogiochi #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #informatica #elettronica #microprocessore #tecnica #cipher #magnetictape #programmazione

Manufacture & use of Agfa Gevaert 1/4" magnetic recording tape

:youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKr0AMbcmRU

#tape #magnetictape #agfa

Looking forward to trolling my colleagues with diagrams made using this template. My excuse? I was denied a licence for #LucidChart. #VintageComputing #Flowchart #PunchedCard #PunchedTape #DrumDisk #MagneticTape

➿📼 Large reels with magnetic tapes were once ubiquitous, except perhaps in home environments. In the museum, we store many types of them and hope to read something interesting from one of them someday! 😀

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #storage #magnetictape #retrocomputing #retrotech #vintagecomputing

Making Magnetic Tape From Scratch - The use of magnetic tape and other removable magnetic media is now on the wane, le... - https://hackaday.com/2023/10/24/making-magnetic-tape-from-scratch/ #chemistryhacks #magneticmedia #magnetictape #tape

Considering the calories burned, it's one of the less efficient data transfers 😅 Good thing it's going downhill on the stairs...

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #nostalgie #nostalgi #reeltape #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #retro #europee #retrocomputing #storage #magnetictape #datastorage #vintageibm #ibm360

✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Ludwig Blattner!

Ludwig Blattner, also known as Louis Blattner was an early pioneer of magnetic sound recording, television and telephony. Although wire tape recording existed, Blattner adapted the technology to steel tape, creating the first magnet tape recording. His new device, the Blattnerphone had far higher fidelity than other recording devices at the time and magnet tape was more reliable.

Blattner had other ideas that were ahead of their time, promoting using a specialised version of the Battnerphone to support audiobooks. He also outlined plans for using his new Blattnerphone with telephony equipment to create an answering machine.

Blattner also invented a system for capturing color picture which would later be called Keller-Dorian cinematography. While this system did not end up being very popular outside of a few films, in the 1920s, any color movies were a novelty.

#JewOfTheDay #Inventor #MagneticTape #Jewdiverse #Mazeldon

Donna (Tori Spelling) discovers that leaving a tape in the glove compartment of a car in southern California causes it to melt while Kelly (Jennie Garth) looks on in Season 4 Episode 3 of Beverly Hills 90120 (22 Sept 1993)

#cassettes #tape #ReelToReel #MagneticTape #ToriSpelling #BeverlyHills90210 #PortableSoundOnTelevision #PortableSound #JennieGarth #90sTV #90s