4 Sep
2004
4 Sep
'04
7:37 a.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
If it just has a hole drilled through it, you should still be able to
read most of it on an ordinary CD reader, as long as the hole isn't
through the directory. Just don't spin it too fast (use a 1x drive).
So we're a
bunch of Hardware/Software conservationists
and up to 10% of us are dedicated to destroying old software
on CDs.
If you were to build a device to scan a stationary piece of CD,
rather than trying to spin it, how much of the data could be
recovered from a disk with a hole drilled through it, or broken
in half?