[ale] bazillion year old software

[Jim Kinney]

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.

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Tim Watts <tim at cliftonfarm.org> wrote:

> Whenever I read things like this it makes me wonder how much of western
> civilization will be lost due to transient or unreadable media. I
> imagine future archaeologists sifting through ruins and concluding "No
> wonder those shlubs never made it past the 21st century. They forgot the
> utility of a written language!"
>
>
> On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 10:01 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > While wife was searching for something else, she ran across a stack of
> > 5.25's that were promptly handed to me.
> >
> > 1. AMDEK setup and testing disk and both MS-DOS 3.2 system and
> > GW-BASIC 3.2 disks.
> > 2. Another lifeless planet and me with no beer v.1.3
> > 3. Monuments on Mars
> > 3. DUKE NUKEM  !!!!!
> >
> > The 3 games have never been opened.
> >
> > I have no drive to put them in....
> >
> > :-(
> >
> > --
> > --
> > James P. Kinney III
> > I would rather stumble along in freedom than walk effortlessly in
> > chains.
> >
> >
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James P. Kinney III
I would rather stumble along in freedom than walk effortlessly in chains.
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