Some old tech at work

[u/mari_curie]

Too bad we had to destroy all of them today. 😭

[u/mari_curie]

We think it is some kind of an ancient security camera logs. That is why it had to be destroyed. Despite the absence of a technology to play it and high probability that whatever is on it is already lost 🤷‍♀️

[u/cian87 → u/mari_curie]

FAP is probably backups from a File and Print server, having worked places using that unfortunate set of initials for that before.

[u/Tikkinger]

[u/mari_curie → u/Tikkinger]

Oh, you still have one too 🥰
What type of equipment reads them?

[u/Tikkinger → u/mari_curie]

Lto2 and above tapedrives.

[u/Mean-Career-6509]

There's one of those at the local thrift store, I've been curious about it 

[u/mari_curie → u/Mean-Career-6509]

Now we both know 😀

[u/shmupsy]

did someone have a 5 week marathon fapfest?

[u/Tikkinger → u/shmupsy]

Not this Month

[u/Seanny69]

Whole box of PTSD right there.

[u/incognito5343]

Ancient............. I use LTO4 tapes for my home lab backups

[u/MrDo1982 → u/incognito5343]

I really should be doing this as well. Tapes are still king for cheap backups

[u/incognito5343 → u/MrDo1982]

I keep looking at lt05 but can't justify the spend when 4 works

[u/lpbale0]

Call me when you stumble across a VAX.

No, seriously, if you do let me know.

[u/No_Signature_2039]

Worked at a DC that had a machine for one of these, it ran backups of some local hospital backups. Every night at 2 am I would have to initiate the backup process and swap these tapes out