17daysolderthannes wrote:
50 years is not what I would consider "awesome archival" material, in fact, thats garbage.
Tell me another medium that you're positive will hold up for 50 years.
17daysolderthannes wrote:
Hard disks are prone to failure and in moderate/heavy usage will usually fail within 5 years. I'm sure newer ones may have a slightly longer life expectancy, but in my past experience a hard drive is far from what I would consider an ideal archival medium.
Also, plop a magnet next to a hard drive and tell me how good the data holds up.
I'm talking about TAPE
Besides, I have a hard drive that has retained data for nearly 20 years, can you say the same about Flash? What is your ideal archival medium?
17daysolderthannes wrote:
Besides, even if hard disks are magnetic, cassette tapes are garbage.
Cassette tapes weren't garbage in the 60s and I fail to see where you're going with this. A tape's apparent audio fidelity has nothing to do with storing digital data.
17daysolderthannes wrote:
VHS and cassette tape quality goes to shit over the years and the more you play it, the quicker it degrades.
VHS is analog. Data is digital. Bits fade away but that's where redundancy and ECC come in. CDs/DVDs would be far worse than cassette tapes had they not ECC.
17daysolderthannes wrote:
As for the BASIC thing, you are pulling that completely out of your ass, unless you have documents from Nintendo that clearly state thats what it was for, you don't know any better than I about what it was used for.
I'm pulling it out of my ass? The AVS keyboard/cassette even have the same layout as the Family BASIC keyboard/cassette! Nintendo always reused unmodified Famicom software when they brought hardware to the NES. If they brought over the Family BASIC keyboard (which is literally called the Family *BASIC* Keyboard) they would have used the software it was intended for: BASIC! AVS was additionally going to be marketted as an inexpensive home computer, which at the time meant.... BASIC!
Yes, this is speculation, but all speculations aren't equal! Since my speculation is the common speculation, you should be defending your speculation, not me. I suggest you go to the Nintendo World Store and prove that the device hasn't a cartridge slot and they never planned one.