#magnetictape — Public Fediverse posts

Media Source:
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

"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