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Croners2015-07-08 16:48:31
Data archiving
Croners, 2015-07-08 16:48:31

What are ancient 10 GB video discs?

I was reading an old book on programming and I came across it mentioning some video disks that can store more than 10 GB of data. And this despite the fact that at the time of writing the book, computers were still working on punched cards. Question: what were these disks and where did they go?
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386DX, 2015-07-08
@386DX

Digital Video Disk aka DVD
By the last sentence of paragraph 2, it is clear that the author had no idea what he was writing about. I heard a ringing, so to speak.

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Spetros, 2015-07-08
@Spetros

Video disc is a general definition of media in the form of a disc that is used to store video and sound for later playback of recorded material.
What kind of book is it, what year was it published?

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Croners, 2015-07-09
@Croners

Link to the book: Programming in modern algorithmic languages...
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