Australia's memory institutions are racing to digitise their magnetic tape collections before the year 2025, when archivists around the world expect it will become almost impossible to find working tape playback machines.Machines need to play and digitise the tapes are expected to disappear by 2025The National Archives of Australia holds some 130,000 hours of audio and video tape that still need to be rescued.
"We have this incredible, vast expanse of recorded memory of Australia from the 20th century and all of it, now, is at risk — through technological obsolescence — of being lost altogether," National Archives director general David Fricker told 7.30. While no-one knows exactly what the remaining tapes contain, the ones that have already been converted give a good sample of the rich history at risk.
They contain fascinating evidence of the actions of Australian government agencies in the past — including CSIRO experiments, nuclear tests at Maralinga, ASIO surveillance vision, audio logs recorded by special forces soldiers in World War II and rare audio tapes of Indigenous languages.
With all our new tech. know-how they should be able to save and copy these priceless gems.
Just like the Apollo 11 tapes that NASA erased to save money... oh well, we'll just have to accept history as being what wikipedia tells us...
Hopefully all the Spick and Specks shows with Adam Hills will be lost.
The article is all blah blah blah doom doom doom, then right at the end they get to the truth which occurred to me immediately. You just need to read the tape with new technology and digitise the signal directly for decoding in a virtualised analogue device in a computer. 🙄🤓
SUPRISE SUPRISE NO WORRIES LABOR WILL REWRITE IT
Don't they still make some brand new? I thought they needed these to read a planes black box recorder for example.
Nooooo!
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