Post #2941622
2026-02-18 08:51 UTC
@avavsystems@mastodon.world @obsoletemediauk@mastodon.world
I was under the impression that recording tape came out of Nazi Germany. It was one of the technologies we looted at the end of the war. Its fidelity was superior to the magnetic wire that had been used in the US and elsewhere.
Was the 1945 German recording tape already a type of plastic? What problem did SoundMirror think they were solving by using a paper substrate?
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@avavsystems@mastodon.world 2026-02-20 07:18
@captainbara@meow.social @obsoletemediauk@mastodon.world I assume the problem they were solving was, following a certain big disagreement - involving those Nazis you mentioned - there was a really desperate shortage of raw materials. Especially in England - which was bombed to pieces by those very same Nazis funnily enough - plastics would have been in short supply & I think expensive. Added to which governments of a lot of countries would want those materials for rebuilding But paper, well, it grows on trees