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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

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 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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Digitizing is the easy part. Even though it’s an ancient format, it’s still just NTSC composite video and analog audio. You digitize it just like you would a VHS tape.

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