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.
  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Lemme guess; it’s on BetaMax?

    Edit: reels?! You don’t have a god damn flashlight and a wall?! I can still watch my dad’s old 8mm tapes this way. It just doesn’t have a consistent frame rate 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • jeffw@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I don’t think it’s that kind of reel. Idk anything about Ampex but it’s probably magnetic tape

      • TexasDrunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 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.