10,000 years? (was: Data Archival (OT Long)

Yes, but not in the way you think. You see, January 23rd, 10,002 the Microsoft Commonwealth will be invaded by a hideous race known as the Zorg. They invade us because of a bad trade agreement. It seems that when they installed Windows 10,000 in their hospitals, the systems crashed and all the tiny little Zorglings in the creche die. They'll completely devistate humanity in a ragged war that will last a hundred years. By the time we defeat them, we'll be once again trapped in Mother Earth's gravity well. All won't be lost though since an enterprising young man will discover a cache of Z-80 (and glue logic) chip mask drawings etched in gold. Thus the 2341st Computer Revolution will be born. This same individual will find the glass holodisc archive of http://www.retroarchive.org and CP/M will once again flourish in the land. Bill Gates XXXXXXXIIIV

will of course try to co-opt

family tradition by naming it "Computer Program/Microsoft", but no one pays any attention and a short time later he's fed feet first into a recently restored 20th century automated sausage press. [Which it is later discovered to have been restored for this exact purpose.] Depends on how the Zorg react to CP/M, now doesn't it? g.