Em 11/3/2011 18:16, Gerhard Fiedler escreveu:
> M.L. wrote:
>
>> Commonly used F/OSS RCS is going to be locatable 25 years from now.
> Whenever people make predictions that far into the future, I try to
> think that far back -- and it always ends the same way: what people
> thought 25 ago about what would happen 25 years later isn't necessarily
> a good match with what is happening today. I extrapolate this to today
> and think that what we'll have in 25 years won't necessarily be what
> people (including me) today think it will be.
>
> >From that, I derive the simple rule: When you have archives that you
> want to be able to read in the future, keep around what you need to read
> them -- be that FOSS, OSS, CSS, FS, OSes, drives, whole computers,
> whatever. And do try to read it in regular intervals to make sure it all
> still works.
>
> Gerhard


I am an example that people can have all their data accessible and
usable even after 25 years.

My old MSX programs and data, dated back to 1985, are all backed-up in
modern media (my several PCs hard-disks, some CDs, DVDs and a couple of
thumb-drives).
Besides, I keep three MSX machines (don't know if they all are still
usable), and images of their EPROMs together with the other data. Even
if all the machines break, there are perfect emulators available (in my
opinion, BlueMSX is the best).

The same for my PC data back to the times of university, when I got my
first PC computer (a 40MHz AMD 386DX-40, of which I still have the boards).


In fact, probably I will never need that data, but it is reassuring to
have it available.


Isaac

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