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cmnybo ,

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.

tsonfeir ,
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As long as it has a USB-A port, I think it will be good. We can’t seem to kill that one. ;)

ponchow8NC ,

Kinda doubt that tbh think at most 15-20 years then we'll look at USB A like how we see serial today. We're still in the infancy stages of companies phasing it out even though it started like 8 years ago.

Saganaki ,

He was most certainly being sarcastic.

Redjard ,

you can physically wire A into C, it's the same protocol. This won't be broken like other adapters because neither device even knows about it

pelletbucket ,
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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

B0rax ,

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.

TheGalacticVoid ,

They haven't had any kind of drive for a while now. You know what does though? Game consoles.

B0rax ,

Sure, but getting the data from the disks through a game console sounds pretty not fun.

TheGalacticVoid ,

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.

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