On Sun, 05 Aug 2018 15:49:00 +1200, Henri Derksen wrote:

> Nice to read and see.
> But if that disks survives 100 years,
> does the drives to read them still exists?

Did you know that NASA very nearly lost all the data, held on mag tape,
from the Apollo and early Mars and moon missions? They had all the tapes
carefully stored but some accountant or non-technical manager decided
that the space occupied by the (large?) tape drives was wasted and sent
them to the tip. Then some years later that data was needed....

Fortunately a retired engineer had 'diverted' two of the drives to his
garage and, even more fortunately, they still worked when cleaned up and
interfaced to a computer.


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