Linda Tadic

It was an NEH grant.

And they copied them off the digital files to old LTO3 tapes.

And then they put them in a safe, one copy.

And then years later, they didn't know how the tapes were written.

And so basically we were called in to, I went to Puerto Rico, I picked up the tapes, brought them back to LA.

We were able to determine how the files were written because nobody was around who had worked on the project.

There was no documentation.

We were able to do data dumps off the tapes, figure out, okay, it was written in NT backup.

It was a Windows environment.

We made sure that's when we had to get the Windows 95 operating system on a computer that could run it.

So that was a success story because those files would have been lost if we weren't able to get them out.

And now they're part of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.

online so people can listen to them.

So I went out and I bought up whatever hard drives I could find that would go into our servers.

So my concern with this, the chip storage, the hard drive storage, basically the marketplace is tilting in favor of the hyperscalers.

We're going to have to rely on the hyperscalers to store our data and to process it.

It's just the way it's going because they are also then controlling the means to store the data.

So this is kind of like a more Uber kind of concern that I have.

The media clients are aware of it because that's really the community that first heard about it.

Other people are only just now starting to learn about it.