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[–] [email protected] 62 points 10 months ago (13 children)

the researchers claim the petabit discs can last 50 to 100 years.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Anytime you get to that length, you always have to think about whether or not someone will have a drive to read it, a computer that it works on, and matching programs to decode the data. Think about some of the formats we had in the 70’s and 80’s and how often people actually have that hardware and software in working order now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (3 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…

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