Can Scotch tape record information like audio tape?

Can Scotch tape record information like audio tape?

An automated device peels tape to a designated distance, lays it back down, and measures the amount of force needed to peel it again

Back in the olden days of the previous millennium, long before the digital revolution compressed entire albums and even movies into ultra-high-fidelity files that users could download in seconds, hundreds of millions of people relied on physical tape to store albums on cassettes (or 8-tracks) and video on low-resolution VHS cassettes.

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Category: Computing, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Pennsylvania State University, Memory, Tape, Adhesive