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

The US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) boasting the IT team of the US Gerneral Services Administration (GSA) “just saved $1M per year by ...

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

The tape is read by magnetic stripe readers incorporated into ATMs, identification readers and payment terminals. Due to the daily, heavy wear these cards receive, the digital recording on the ...

A high-capacity data storage system for storing, retrieving, reading and writing multiple magnetic tape cartridges. Also called a "tape automation system," it contains storage racks for holding ...

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

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 ...