This has already hit NASA. Pre-Mercury program data on tapes and no working drives and the engineers who built them are dead along with the original companies.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Tim Watts <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tim@cliftonfarm.org">tim@cliftonfarm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Whenever I read things like this it makes me wonder how much of western<br>
civilization will be lost due to transient or unreadable media. I<br>
imagine future archaeologists sifting through ruins and concluding "No<br>
wonder those shlubs never made it past the 21st century. They forgot the<br>
utility of a written language!"<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 10:01 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> While wife was searching for something else, she ran across a stack of<br>
> 5.25's that were promptly handed to me.<br>
><br>
> 1. AMDEK setup and testing disk and both MS-DOS 3.2 system and<br>
> GW-BASIC 3.2 disks.<br>
> 2. Another lifeless planet and me with no beer v.1.3<br>
> 3. Monuments on Mars<br>
> 3. DUKE NUKEM !!!!!<br>
><br>
> The 3 games have never been opened.<br>
><br>
> I have no drive to put them in....<br>
><br>
> :-(<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> --<br>
> James P. Kinney III<br>
> I would rather stumble along in freedom than walk effortlessly in<br>
> chains.<br>
><br>
><br>
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