18 Jan
2007
18 Jan
'07
9:01 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 3:46 AM
Subject: Re: Jules Richardson wrote on "Digital Archaeology of the
Microcomputer, 1974-1994
The machines and common cards will be, but drivers and exotic
hardware/software will be long gone. It is hard to find drivers for some
things now let alone in 20 years.
On 18 Jan 2007 at 2:55, Teo Zenios wrote:
> 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.
There will still be plenty of the things around. One thing that just
about guarantees this is the sheer numbers of them sold. So they'll
go into basements, attics and barns and forgotten about.
Civil War-era brass musical instruments still turn up from time to
time--found hanging in a barn, or an attic or serviing as a table
lamp. That's after two World Wars and a bunch of smaller ones with
scrap brass collection drives.
I imagine down the road a couple of decades, we won't have the
general-purpose desktop computer in any recognizable form. Computers
will largely be embedded in everything--including people's heads.
Cheers,
Chuck