Insights

DAT—more precisely, R-DAT—has been with us since 1987. I remember when Sony introduced it. It seemed like a marvel of engineering: extremely thin tape, a head drum rotating at 2,000 RPM, and two hours of digital audio inside a cassette small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. Articles at the time loved comparing the tiny recorded tracks with the width of a human hair. When I first saw and heard DAT as a teenager, I understood the fascination. It was digital, quiet and re

I was first introduced to Dictabelts around 2006. The Aba Eban archive contacted me and asked me to digitize about 300 Dictabelts that...

Starting a blog is an interesting challenge for me. Anyone who knows me will tell you that I’m more comfortable behind the scenes. So why...