I mean, books deteriorate, a file can be copied and backed up. There’s no doubt DRM-Free Ebooks are superior, right? Is there anything I’m missing?

  • @rekabis@lemmy.ca
    1•5 days ago

    but you’d already be hard pressed to read the data off a deck of punch cards or reel of magnetic tape

    Even something like a 3¼″ floppy is getting hard to find a drive for, because not many USB drives were made, and non-USB drives need a motherboard with floppy compatibility. Which would be more than a decade old by this point.

    • TipponEnglish
      1•5 days ago

      USB floppy drives are pretty easy to buy online now. I bought one from either Amazon or Ali Express a little while ago, and it works perfectly :)