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hopefully the tape is still good. You want to know what is the coolest thing about those old tapes, they are just a TAR
so the challenges are
finding a working tape reader
hopefully the tape is readable
time
that shits gonna take forever
wouldn’t the hardest part be figuring out what tar command to run?
I suppose tar stands for tape archive. It hadn’t occured to me.
Just like t hadn’t occurred to me that x86’s popcnt instruction stands for “population count” :)
