TechnologyEnglish • 7 months ago

NSA Claims It Can’t Watch a Tape It Recorded in the 1980s

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NSA Claims It Can’t Watch a Tape It Recorded in the 1980s

TechnologyEnglish • 7 months ago

The agency is sitting on a piece of computer history, but won’t release it because it doesn’t have the right kind of tape player.

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@jeffwOP
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31•7 months ago
I don’t think it’s that kind of reel. Idk anything about Ampex but it’s probably magnetic tape
- @TexasDrunk
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  2•7 months ago
  This is accurate. I mostly know Ampex because of their history with audio recording, but I’m passingly familiar with some of the other things they did.

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