It’s AI mate

Is his mother also a Grinch?

A tape drive normally reads the analog signals (magnetic force) off the tape and interprets them into ones and zeroes as it reads the tape. If the tape becomes too degraded, the drive may begin to struggle to read the tape. Instead the tape drive can be used to read and record the magnetic signals off the tape and save that to a file. The whole capture then can be analyzed to perform data recovery.

If it’s packaged by a machine it might be easier this way