Disasters and Recovery

One of the reasons I want to have a completely spec'd Pentium class computer is to create an archive that will survive a reasonable amount of time (100 years in a time capsule) No doubt this is true elsewhere but some folks and I came up with this idea to create a time capsule of things from the last year before the year 2000 for people to look at in the year 2100. I don't know of any 1899 capsules but they would have been fun to have around as well. The goal then is to encapsulate a PC, with software, that will survive 100 years of storage (probably a helium or argon atmosphere so oxidation won't be a problem). Ideally the machine should be recoverable to the point where you could boot an operating system on it and write a program and run it on it. As this list is full of folks who've dealt with the 'ravages of time' on their collections, I was looking for things to protect against. --Chuck