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Re:The long road to recover Frogger 2 source from tape drives by ddingus on Thursday May 25, 2023 @11:36AM (#36072095)
You mean the "if you are reading this in the distant future" instructions are written to the medium first? And are straight up ASCII?

Nice. That kind of thing makes too much sense. Wow. Such cheap insurance. Nice work from that team.

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Re:The long road to recover Frogger 2 source from tape drives by hlandau on Friday May 26, 2023 @04:05PM (#36088918)
Yeah. If I ever wrote a backup system I'd do this too, write the whole spec for the format first to every medium. A 100k specification describing the format is nothing to waste on a medium which can store 10TB.
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Re:The long road to recover Frogger 2 source from tape drives by ddingus on Sunday June 04, 2023 @01:03AM (#36183232)
Seriously. Scale really changes things.
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