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DVD-like optical disc could store 1.6 petabits (or 200 terabytes) on 100 layers (www.techspot.com)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Aren’t most of those emulateable in dos-box or similar programs?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How do you emulate reading from a physical medium?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That’s the only hurdle if you have the software and decoding both of which are emulateable. Which wouldn’t be overly hard to reverse engineer a connector if you have everything else…

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Assuming the software isn't lost, then yeah, typically it can be emulated or reverse engineered to work.

The bigger hurdle is the hardware, especially if the encoding of the data was proprietary, meaning that even if you could get a reading without it, you'd still need to figure out how to decode it into useful data