Hacker News with Generative AI: CD-ROM

Internet Archive CD-ROM images search tool Discmaster2 launched (hackster.io)
Jason Scott, self-described "free-range archivist" at the Internet Archive, has announced the launch in full of DISCMASTER 2 — a platform that lets you search for, and view, individual files from a broad range of floppy disk and CD-ROM images stored on the platform, complete with automatic file conversion for modern browsers.
Internet Archive, CD-ROM, Search Tools, Digital Preservation, Software
14 points by K2h 3 days ago | 2 comments
What You Might Miss When Backing Up CDs (mistys-internet.website)
I’ve written a bit recently about CD-ROM preservation and some of the more niche, easily-missed parts of the format. I’ve covered the formats themselves, but I felt it might help to provide some concrete examples of the kind of data that can easily be missed and that might not get backed up.
Data Recovery, CD-ROM, Digital Preservation, Technology, Data Loss
9 points by LorenDB 47 days ago | 1 comments
Why Did Early CD-ROM Drives Rely on Awkward Plastic Caddies? (hackaday.com)
These days, very few of us use optical media on the regular. If we do, it’s generally with a slot-loading console or car stereo, or an old-school tray-loader in a desktop or laptop. This has been the dominant way of using consumer optical media for some time.
Hardware, CD-ROM, Design
6 points by MrBuddyCasino 81 days ago | 0 comments
The Working Archivist's Guide to Enthusiast CD-ROM Archiving Tools (mistys-internet.website)
I’ve seen a lot of professional archivists who use flux disc image archiving techniques for their collections—a technique in which a specialized floppy controller captures the raw signal coming from the floppy drive so that it can be preserved and decoded in software. I haven’t, however, seen many archivists using enthusiast-developed low-level reading techniques for CD-ROM.
CD-ROM, Digital Preservation, Archives, Software
27 points by zdw 177 days ago | 2 comments