• thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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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

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      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” :)

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        2 days ago

        tar x is pretty easy, isn’t it? Or tar xf if they need to specify the input file/device.

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            1 day ago

            If you’re implying that I didn’t recognize someone taking a jab at a unix command, then no, not whoosh. I got that. It doesn’t make a clever or funny joke, though, because the command they chose to ridicule is easy, and is the same in other archive tools like 7z and rar.

            If you think something else went over my head, then perhaps you could enlighten me by saying what you mean.