Week Six: Muddy Tape Storage Devices

Probably because I am a member of Gen Y, I have never had the pleasure of working with tape based storage devices. I found the idea to be a little foreign, but then I realized that they are similar to audio cassettes.

I remember struggling with jammed cassettes and twisted tape that would always inevitably take at least an hour to getting it back into playable condition. An hour is an excruciatingly long time for an inpatient child.

My favorite cassette tape would play on repeat all day and all night and eventually the tape stopped playing. The same thing happens with tape storage devices. Either through repeated retrieval of information from the cassette or re-recording of information, eventually the tape will wear out.