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I watched the whole thing so you don't have to: 1. A DOTS reader looks sort of like an external DVD/tape/floppy drive 2. Data is recoverable not via just a DO
by pathless 2y ago
I watched the whole thing so you don't have to:
1. A DOTS reader looks sort of like an external DVD/tape/floppy drive
2. Data is recoverable not via just a DOTS reader, but with a normal camera/microscope if need be. Imagine a mixture of QR codes and logos, like a business card might have.
3. Instructions on reading DOTS data and building an actual DOTS reader can be "drawn" on the medium itself in a human interpretable form (see: Voyager record)
4. DOTS media is essentially a piece of durable metal that takes precise and dense impressions from a laser, which makes it mostly immune to things like EMP blasts, chemicals, extreme temperatures, etc
5. No price is listed, but the media block shown was 1.2TB
- kazinator 2y agoI think you could read a CD-ROM with a microscope, in theory.
- entropicdrifter 2y agoOver a TB is pretty impressive for truly shelf-stable storage