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Do you really think you are going to find a working CD drive in 100+ years? Try finding a working 8" floppy drive and a computer that can interface with one. They are only 50 years old and it's quite a task to read an 8" floppy now.
Data has to be transferred to new media as it becomes available if you want to keep it and be able to read it decades later.
As long as it has a USB-A port, I think it will be good. We can’t seem to kill that one. ;)
yeah but the CD keeps being backwards compatible with DVD players, then Blu-ray, then UHD Blu-ray... these new 125tb discs are the same form factor again. i think we'll have CD players way longer than tape decks
I think CD is more or less at the end of its livecycle, most PCs sold today don’t even have a cd drive anymore.
They haven't had any kind of drive for a while now. You know what does though? Game consoles.
Sure, but getting the data from the disks through a game console sounds pretty not fun.
The point is that even if CD or DVD drives aren't produced nearly as much, there is still a market for newer drives that still support CDs and DVDs.
Sometimes I scrounge around bargain tech and I see a vga port (is that a serial port? I can't remember) or the green/purple ports for a mouse and a ???? (keyboard????) and I am blown away because I forgot they existed. And do you remember that big fat fuckin' port that you put a printer on? Cause I remember having to undo, redo, undo, redo that fker a hundred years ago because it never seemed to connect right. But I can't even tell you WHERE I was messing with that. Maybe a library. I just remember it because it was the size of a harmonica (but not really).