29 Aug
2016
29 Aug
'16
11:55 a.m.
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 01:54:46PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
I'm a bit of collector of antique systems (hoarder, more accurately). This would be less burdensome if I could collect just the software and not the hardware.
More generally, we are losing access to our past technology at an alarming rate but only the hardware actually deteriorates. If we could reliably run ancient systems, a lot of the risks could be reduced.
Well there are emulators for lots of systems, including PCs, but it seems the CDROM interfaces have been left out somehow. -- Len Sorensen