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It is speeding up with digital storage. Who knows what those Zip drives has on them?
by backtoyoujim 11y ago
It is speeding up with digital storage.
Who knows what those Zip drives has on them?
- toothbrush 11y agoThat thought literally (almost) keeps me up at night.
- greglindahl 11y agoWell, since magnetic media has a very finite lifetime, you don't have much longer to worry about Zip disks -- they'll all be unreadable soon. Which brings me to another fun story. My girlfriend runs a book conservation lab, and she was wondering if she should try to read the bits on a floppy disk associated with a book on numerical methods -- it costs $$ to try to read the disk, and given the age, it was unlikely to work. I know one of the book authors, so I told her I likely could probably find a copy of the software on the Internet, if she found some pages that listed the names of the software functions. Turned out that it was a copy of LAPACK, which is available at NETLIB. Only one checkin to the code since the book was published in 1986...