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> They had machines that could verify the checksum of the disk in three seconds by reading the entire thing with multiple laser heads. I would love to be able
by awiesenhofer 3y ago
> They had machines that could verify the checksum of the disk in three seconds by reading the entire thing with multiple laser heads.
I would love to be able to buy such a drive, would be great to rip all my old discs.
- jedberg 3y agoI don't think the machines could save the data. They just loaded into RAM, took the checksum, compared it to the known good checksum, and then moved on.