Reel-to-reel and the first national records
What ministries stored, and what the tape could not survive.
Tech Through Time
The machines that taught us first
Legacy formats, retired protocols and the discontinued hardware still running in African institutions — documented before the knowledge goes with it.
Dial-up communities and shared exchanges
The bulletin boards that trained a generation of engineers.
Feature phones as the first platform
USSD menus outlasted the handsets that carried them.
The retrospective
Obsolete
never
means irrelevant
Archive FormatsAnalogue Networks
From reel-to-reel tape to the floppy: how each format shaped what African archives could keep, and what they lost.
ARCHIVE — 1965 ONWARD
We restore, test and document the machines African institutions actually ran, and publish what they teach current builders.
Machines
With Memory
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Field Notes
Restored & Running
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