Re:9 track tapes are hardly dead (Score 2, Informative)

A number of companies including Imation still make reel tapes. The whole thread is based on nothing but some bogus advertising. The US Government consumes sufficient reel to reel tapes for classified pieces of equiptment for which output tapes must be destroyed instead of reused to keep the market viable for a few years. http://www.imation.com/en_US/products/product_fami ly_generic_1.jhtml?Id=IM_FAM184