YAAYD (Yet another "Ten (0A) year" discussion) (was: GOPHER

I think the reason this list will never become a Windows support list is indeed because there are so many other much better resources for questions like that. On the other hand, I sense a relative dearth of info online regarding ordinary PCs that preceeded the rise of the Web. There was gobs of info on Compuserve, for example, in the BBS dial-up days, that was not preserved. I've always wondered if Compuserve kept archive backup tapes of all the message forum postings. I tend to think they didn't. What a shame. Years of computer history, down the tubes. Mind you, I'm a digital packrat and back in Compuserve days even I had to resort to judicious editing of my online transcripts to minimize file sizes. So although I have years of daily captures, they were edited as per my mindset of the moment, deciding what was important and what wasn't. I shudder to think how long it might take me to resurrect some old EISA or VLB gizmo with the proper drivers and CONFIG / AUTOEXEC / Win.ini settings. - John