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Build a Cheap Media-Reading PC?

Posted by kdawson on from the chewing-gum-memory-sticks dept.

tsm_sf writes "A recent Slashdot article got me thinking about dead and dying media. I'd like to build a cheap PC with the goal of being able to read as many old formats as possible. Size and power consumption would be design considerations; priority of media formats would be primary. How would you approach such a project?"

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  1. Over 5000 pages per gigabyte of data by Joce640k · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sounds like a winner to me!

    A backup of my PC will only be about five million pages or so.

    If the disk ever goes down then rescanning the pages will be a doddle.

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  2. Re:Super-8, 4-track and 8-track by greenguy · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's nothing. Wait 'til they get to the wax cylinders and player-piano sheets I have.

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  3. Re:cant resist by ciderVisor · · Score: 4, Funny

    a tyme masheen

    That ride sucks !

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  4. Re:Magic Wand by Gewalt · · Score: 4, Funny

    /sigh. of course, I meant Olivander's, not the bookstore. While you're accidentally in Flourish & Bott's, please be sure to check out my new book "Pedantical Me".

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  5. Wangtek? by Loki_666 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wang-tek? No, i really don't want to know what sort of interface cards they make!

  6. Re:See... by Linker3000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    1: Once you take out your operating system, applications, porn...

    You had me right up to that point.

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  7. Re:Big long SCSI bus by NeilTheStupidHead · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's something about having half-wit control freaks in positions of authority that disturbs me.

    So... you don't normally deal with middle management?

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  8. Re:cant resist by badboy_tw2002 · · Score: 5, Funny

    My God, the future has already been altered! He's using a modem!