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If you could build a computer that held and displayed the data, you might be able to preserve it - a tablet or handheld device that gets handed down through gen
by robbedpeter 5y ago
If you could build a computer that held and displayed the data, you might be able to preserve it - a tablet or handheld device that gets handed down through generations and only activated one a decade or so?
Beyond preservation, though, that's an interesting engineering puzzle - could you fashion a computer intended to operate for 500 years, without replacement parts?
It'd need serious shielding, components that wouldn't degrade, some sort of capacitor based rechargeable power system, connector interfaces designed to be easily modded, and so on.
I imagine such a legacy computer would be durable beyond even advanced military or nasa tech allows for.
https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/the-100-year-computer https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/the-100-year-computer