The precarious state of classic software and hardware preservation

[Chuck Guzis]

On 11/19/21 6:33 PM, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote:
> Michael asked
>> What are we, as a community, to do to fix this and make sure that our
>> history stays peserved and isn't one bad day away from vanishing.
> 
> Whenever some new vintage computing page appears I go to archive.org and submit the
> URL to them for the wayback machine. Often they've crawled it already, but not always
> so I think it does help.

To me, it's mind-boggling thinking of the stuff that has been lost--even
a lot of my own work while under employment.   Unless tapes mysteriously
turn up, it's all gone.

Much of human history, it seems, has been written in drifting sand.  But
it's always been thus.

--Chuck