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I found this pretty impressive: > Then I did the real test. After poking around and finding a tape of my > old BASIC programs I typed LOAD again and explored
by hachiya 17y ago
I found this pretty impressive:
> Then I did the real test. After poking around and finding a tape of my
> old BASIC programs I typed LOAD again and explored the tape. 30 years on
> all the programs loaded from tape just fine and executed. I was able to
> spend a happy few hours playing character-based games that I wrote.
That his programs loaded after 30 years on a cassette tape makes
some of those cheap flaky CDs' lifespans look pretty bad.
- zokier 17y agoI'm quite certain that if you take highest quality CD-R medium (he mentions that he had used highest quality tapes), burn it carefully, and then store it away from sun, excess heat or humidity, it will last 30 years. Wouldn't say same for the drive used though, and that's where the real problem kicks in.