The Deleted Scenes

The Deleted Scenes

Master of Tape

It’s spooky how quickly a mass technology can become a mysterious art.

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Addison Del Mastro
Jun 05, 2021
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Every once in a while, reading about old bits of commercial history or popular culture, I come across something that really strikes me. This is one such bit. I’ve linked to Techmoan videos several times here, and one of his videos inspired this piece about Sony’s DAT, a lossless digital tape format introduced in the 1980s and vociferously opposed by the…

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