Digital Audio Tape was a key medium for us radio journalists. after the (analog) cassette tape and the sony walkman professional DAT came into the market as a relief: finally a digital audio medium! i recorded hundreds of interviews on DAT.

i also stored loads of data on the DAT tapes you see in the images above and below. no audio in this case, but backup data from my silicon graphics machine and from a macintosh computer. i needed a special DAT streaming recorder for that purpose. long gone…