{"id":8092,"date":"2012-12-07T20:30:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T01:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=8092"},"modified":"2012-12-07T20:30:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T01:30:08","slug":"the-shell-of-dead-media-lives-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/07\/the-shell-of-dead-media-lives-on\/","title":{"rendered":"The shell of dead media lives on"},"content":{"rendered":"

You have to be of a certain age to recognize this:<\/p>\n

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… not just as an artist’s travel palette<\/a>, but as a repurposed case for a 9-track tape spool. While tape drives were iconic for mainframe computers (so much so, there’s a Unicode glyph for them: \u00e2\u0153\u2021), the last drives and tapes came off the line a decade ago. They’re not truly dead until everybody forgets what these cases were originally for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You have to be of a certain age to recognize this: … not just as an artist’s travel palette, but as a repurposed case for a 9-track tape spool. While tape drives were iconic for mainframe computers (so much so, there’s a Unicode glyph for them: \u00e2\u0153\u2021), the last drives and tapes came off the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[2598,2556,1106],"class_list":["post-8092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-palette","tag-retrocomputing","tag-tape"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-26w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8104,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092\/revisions\/8104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}