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Re:A new video captures a 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal by kevindamm on Friday December 13, 2024 @06:51AM (#42407768)
ah, thanks for catching the typo, it was getting late for me, I should have pulled up a link or something because I haven't worked with these discs in a decade or so..

yeah those are the ones I'm referring to -- if you're archiving something like family history or data that needs to be good for centuries (without having to re-copy and juggle), those are a better choice than just about anything else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC

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Re:A new video captures a 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal by tom_wilde on Friday December 13, 2024 @07:42AM (#42407992)
What beats M-Disc? Genuinely curious just having bought one.
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Re:A new video captures a 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal by kevindamm on Friday December 13, 2024 @07:59AM (#42408065)
Nothing comes to mind that you can interface with a computer, but when I wrote the phrase I was thinking of projects on the scale of Long Now [0], requiring physical etching on materials and very careful storage.

Alternatively, tell people that they can't store something and you're likely to find it robustly mirrored by many.

[0] https://longnow.org/ideas/very-long-term-backup/

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Re:A new video captures a 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal by tom_wilde on Friday December 13, 2024 @10:48AM (#42409605)
Well that was a fascinating diversion. This is bonkers!

https://norsam.com/products/buddhist-nano-film/

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