[url=http://meincmagazine.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=32365663#p32365663:3g8pybo2 said:
unequivocal[/url]":3g8pybo2]I believe modern commercial airplanes use this technology in their black boxes. I think the stainless steel wires are on a continuous loop, so that the black box records some number of hours of data on the wire and the records over the old data.
The advantage is that even if the black box itself is ruptured, the data on the wire wire, even if the wire is severed, will still be recoverable and playable, unless it's been heated over the curie temperature for stainless steel.
