18 Jan
2007
18 Jan
'07
2:55 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Murray McCullough" <c.murray.mccullough at gmail.com>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: Jules Richardson wrote on "Digital Archaeology of the
Microcomputer, 1974-1994
I agree. At least we're preserving some things.
And we can!
Experimenters
of the 8-bit era are a hardy bunch and there still are
'artifacts' from
that
era still around. Will one be able to say the same
thing about PCs of
today
20 years down the road? Will they be worth preserving
or saving from the
scrap heap, hardware and software and such.
Happy computing all!
Murrray--
We have a never ending cycle of "today's PC are not interesting enough to
preserve" so nobody bothers, which is what the people who made your favorite
machine thought at the time. I guarantee you people down the road will be
interested in everything people today might stick their nose up at now and
did not bother to archive.