Save the Whales!

[zeitghost]

And lose your magnetic recording tape.

http://home.comcast.net/~mrltapes/pubshed3.pdf

That one's borked, try this one instead:

http://mrltapes.com/pubshed3.pdf

Apparently, prior to the 1970s they used whale oil in the binder that keeps the magnetic coating on the tape.

Then they introduced urethane as an "improvement".

[xoggoth]

Damn new fangled stuff. Punched cards never had these problems.

[SupremeSpod]

Damn new fangled stuff. Punched cards never had these problems.

What about Mercury Delay Lines? Not very transportable admittedly.

[chef]

Gah, I thought the land of the red dragon and many sheep had come under attack then..

[chef]

either that or the Big Ear'd one had been shot