This reflects back on how we are about to loose some of the CPM games due to the lack of hardware that can read the storage media of the times. 9 Track is bad, 8 inch is bad, of all the words of wisdom writen since the age of the word processor began, how much never got committed to paper? What have we lost? Is that elusive theroy of everything missing in action? I guess we will never know.
This is something I've thought a lot about too, Cecil (another name I'll never see the same way after FF4). I read a book about it that you might be interested in: Dark Ages II: When the Digital Data Die. It is loaded with real examples of lost data. I remember a part that talked about NASA's moon missions; a lot of that is now inaccessible and will probably be forever lost (if not already).
This reflects back on how we are about to loose some of the CPM games due to the lack of hardware that can read the storage media of the times. 9 Track is bad, 8 inch is bad, of all the words of wisdom writen since the age of the word processor began, how much never got committed to paper? What have we lost? Is that elusive theroy of everything missing in action? I guess we will never know.
This is something I've thought a lot about too, Cecil (another name I'll never see the same way after FF4). I read a book about it that you might be interested in: Dark Ages II: When the Digital Data Die. It is loaded with real examples of lost data. I remember a part that talked about NASA's moon missions; a lot of that is now inaccessible and will probably be forever lost (if not already).
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