There's two layers to these old magnetic tapes.

一旦它们彼此分离 这带子就成废物了。

Additionally, there was cheap and reliable computer storage, like magnetic tape cassettes and floppy disks.

此外，还有便宜且可靠的计算机存储，例如磁带盒和软盘。

It debuted with a new form of computer storage: magnetic tape.

它以一种新的计算机存储形式首次亮相：磁带。

However, by the 1950s, mechanical inputs were rendered obsolete by programs and data stored entirely on mediums like punch cards and magnetic tape.

然而，到 1950 年代，机械输入已被完全存储在穿孔卡和磁带等介质上的程序和数据淘汰。

Then there were the 400 magnetic tapes of navigational data inside some moldy cardboard boxes under a staircase at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.

然后在加利福尼亚喷气推进实验室楼梯下的一些发霉的纸板箱中有 400 盘导航数据磁带。

Although tape drives were expensive, the magnetic tape itself was cheap and compact, and for this reason, they're still used today for archiving data.

尽管磁带驱动器很昂贵，但磁带本身既便宜又紧凑，因此，它们至今仍用于归档数据。

Also, computers and the magnetic tape and discs that their information is stored on only last for a few decades, at most, before degrading and becoming unreliable.

此外，计算机以及存储其信息的磁带和磁盘最多只能使用几十年，然后才会退化并变得不可靠。

Atlas' engineers doubled down on this idea, and outfitted their computer with 4 paper tape readers, 4 paper tape punches, and up to 8 magnetic tape drives.

Atlas 的工程师加倍考虑这个想法，并为他们的计算机配备了 4 个纸带阅读器、4 个纸带打孔器和多达 8 个磁带驱动器。

Last episode we talked about data storage, how technologies like magnetic tape and hard disks can store millions, billions and trillions of bits of data, for long durations, even without power.

上一集我们谈到了数据存储，磁带和硬盘等技术如何能够长时间存储数百万、数十亿和数万亿比特的数据， 甚至在没有电源的情况下也是如此。

File systems allow us to hide the raw bits stored on magnetic tape, spinning disks and the like, and they let us think of data as neatly organized and easily accessible files.

文件系统使我们能够隐藏存储在磁带、旋转磁盘等类似设备上的原始数据，它们让我们将数据视为组织有序且易于访问的文件。