Hacker News with Generative AI: CD-ROM

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 28 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 124 days ago | 2 comments