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“All 30 years of history reside in our tape backups,” Fredley explained.
We still use them, unfortunately.
They’ll never go away."
So how do store all those physical tapes?
“They go into a mineshaft somewhere,” Fredley said.
“That’s not a joke.
Just because you’re an executive doesn’t mean you have access to the material.”
If a dev needs access to the material, they get it through the preservation team.
All told, there are some 200 million files.
Might it go public someday, when the copyright on all this material goes out?
“It’s probably always gonna remain an internal service and internal material.
And ultimately, it’s not up for us to decide.
We help preserve stuff.
We don’t decide what happens to it.”
Still, it’s clear that his heart’s in the right place.
“There’s people who probably don’t know what Gex is,” he joked during the panel.
“That wounds me personally.”
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