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Say what you will, punch cards I have left from the 60's are still readable (or rather, they would be if I built a reader for them). That's more than can be said of any floppy disk, ZIP drive or CDROM of any denomination from even 20 years later.
And guess what: core memories that have been left unpowered for decades are still readable to this day too. The guys on the Curious Marc Youtube channel have demonstrated reading back old Apollo program cores and recovering the software that ran on them several times.
Old tech is old and clunky, but it'll still be functional long after the AI crap gets media-obsoleted out of existence. That's not to say I'm glad it's coming back though - particularly when the comeback is prompted by tech-bro-induced scarcity.
No need for a device, they are technically human-readable.
Yeah, I definitely miss the days when things were built to last. And last. And...