Re:What is DOTS?
by entropicdrifter on Thursday January 02, 2025 @02:36PM
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Over a TB is pretty impressive for truly shelf-stable storage
I think you could read a CD-ROM with a microscope, in theory.
Not without a copy of the Yellow Book. A cool feature of DOTS and Piql is that documentation is stored on every tape.
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