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b112 • today at 12:37 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

We have those CDs made of stone we could use! That's sorta a stone .. thing.


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IAmBroom • today at 1:35 PM

The data is preserved in plastic, which is (so far) a less-digestible hydrocarbon than wood (paper) and skin (vellum).

So, intermediary at best. My understanding is that R/W CDs are far less durable than earlier write-once CDs, but probably far less common for mass storage.

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