Retro Machines Key to Rescuing Old Data

Posted by Hemos on Sunday June 19, 2005 @11:54PM from the or-just-some-really-good-emulation dept.

SimilarityEngine writes "New Scientist report on the virtues of old kit. From the article: 'Today's stylish PCs may perform billions of calculations a second and store tens of billions of bytes of data, but for many, they have got nothing on the 32, 48 or 64-kilobyte machines that were the giants of the early 1980s. This renewed interest in old-school computing is more than just a trip down memory-chip lane. Early computers are a part of our technological heritage, and also offer a unique perspective on how today's machines work. And within growing collections of original computers and home-made replicas, and the anecdote-filled web pages and blogs devoted to them, lies the equipment and expertise that will one day help unlock our past by reading countless computer files stored in outmoded formats.'"

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Re:IBM 5100 by TripMaster+Monkey · 2005-06-20 00:07 · Score: 0, Offtopic

John Titor

What a monstrously written website...in the future, will all websites display the same lack of basic common sense in design?

I sure hope not.

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Re:old cruft by iibagod · 2005-06-20 04:15 · Score: 0, Offtopic

No, no....you're supposed to say, "I know I'm going to be modded down for this, but...."