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How did Google find all those lost e-mails?

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CNN; By John D. Sutter
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Answer: Google still stores e-mail data on tape.

Yes, tape. Like, essentially the technology behind the cassette. Google doesn't specify what kind of tape it's using exactly, but as Seth Weintraub notes on a blog on the CNN partner site Fortune.com, using tape is a mess.

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Comments (10)

Lady GaGa could make an outfit from it. Much harder with hard drives.

Not say she couldn't find a way...
I wonder if it's red?
Is it just me, or does the photo with the article really look like surface mount chips?
@Bob -

It's Google's new so freakin' large you wouldn't believe it in a zillion years integration technology. Just imagine the solder bill.
I'd like to see the EPA impact statement.
Won't see one. Local EPA office is buried in solder.

Very smart people at Google. Not such hot solderers, though.
Black out in Oregon due to cold solder joint.

Film of flux at 11.
Flux is old. We saw it in 1985. Remember "Back to the Future"?
> Remember

I don't have the flux capacity.
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