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Re: Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo

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Post by jedbrooke »

calvinmorrison wrote: post #16
jedbrooke wrote: post #9

> Supplies are limited, and the first 1,000 eligible submissions will receive one. Limit one per person. Availability may be limited by country or region. This seems quite limited to be a real product, but also quite a lot for seemingly what’s just a joke to mock Sony for ceasing blu-ray production. It’s worth mentioning that github does (did?) do some cool stuff with physical media archiving of code like the arctic…

Not really cool. They ignored licenses and just stole people (my) code, and gave it to a 3rd party to reproduce for their own commercial uses.

oh I had thought it was opt-in, but it wasn’t. Yeah ignoring licenses is significantly less cool

Re: Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo

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Post by numpad0 »

StilesCrisis wrote: post #115
numpad0 wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are fully automated disc burner bots. EPSON models take 100 discs at once and burn up to 30 discs per hour, so 1000 discs is just 10 magazine load/unloads or 1: https://epson.com/Support/Other-Products/Discproducers/Epson...

That isn't a burner at all. It prints labels onto CDs.

...no? It does both.

Load fresh discs from magazine, put onto an internal disc drive, let a connected PC burn it, take out, print on it, and move it to a burned disc holder. All in one box. The networked model does it over LAN like a laser printer.

Re: Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo

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Post by StilesCrisis »

numpad0 wrote: post #124
StilesCrisis wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That isn't a burner at all. It prints labels onto CDs.

...no? It does both. Load fresh discs from magazine, put onto an internal disc drive, let a connected PC burn it, take out, print on it, and move it to a burned disc holder. All in one box. The networked model does it over LAN like a laser printer.

Such models do exist but the one you linked lacks a burner entirely.

https://tapeandmedia.com/Epson_DiscProducer_autoprinter_PP_1...

"Epson Discproducer PP-100AP Autoprinter for CD/DVD/Blu-Ray Disc (prints only - does not duplicate disc)"

Re: Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo

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Post by numpad0 »

StilesCrisis wrote: post #125
numpad0 wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...no? It does both. Load fresh discs from magazine, put onto an internal disc drive, let a connected PC burn it, take out, print on it, and move it to a burned disc holder. All in one box. The networked model does it over LAN like a laser printer.

Such models do exist but the one you linked lacks a burner entirely. https://tapeandmedia.com/Epson_DiscProducer_autoprinter_PP_1... "Epson Discproducer PP-100AP Autoprinter for CD/DVD/Blu-Ray Disc (prints only - does not duplicate disc)"

oof. looks like I linked to a special printing only variant out of dozen or so models. My apologies...

Re: Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo

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Post by StilesCrisis »

numpad0 wrote: post #126
StilesCrisis wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Such models do exist but the one you linked lacks a burner entirely. https://tapeandmedia.com/Epson_DiscProducer_autoprinter_PP_1... "Epson Discproducer PP-100AP Autoprinter for CD/DVD/Blu-Ray Disc (prints only - does not duplicate disc)"

oof. looks like I linked to a special printing only variant out of dozen or so models. My apologies...

All the same, they don't need a thousand copies of one GitHub repo. They need a thousand different copies of various unrelated repos. Maybe some disc duplicators can handle that without constant user involvement, but all the ones I've worked with are designed around mass replication of one individual ISO.

Re: Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo

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Post by numpad0 »

StilesCrisis wrote: post #127
numpad0 wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

oof. looks like I linked to a special printing only variant out of dozen or so models. My apologies...

All the same, they don't need a thousand copies of one GitHub repo. They need a thousand different copies of various unrelated repos. Maybe some disc duplicators can handle that without constant user involvement, but all the ones I've worked with are designed around mass replication of one individual ISO.

Looks like target market of this type of duplicators is hospitals using it for exchanging medical images, where optical discs are still very common as disposable storage medium. I'm sure they don't print hundreds of identical chest X-ray images... This one really isn't bunch of DVD drives wired in parallel to a no-name ASIC, it's one drive stuffed in a microwave enclosure along with a robot to change out discs for it.
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