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3 decades is short enough to be "living memory", so no need for cuneiform tablets ;-) My dad's Ph.D. is on PDP-8 magnetic tape. We went to a computer museum to
by peterburkimsher 4y ago
3 decades is short enough to be "living memory", so no need for cuneiform tablets ;-)
My dad's Ph.D. is on PDP-8 magnetic tape. We went to a computer museum to try to recover it, but their PDP-11's Winchester drive (hard drive) had broken (and made dramatic noises), so we weren't able to boot fully in order to mount the tape. Eventually we ran out of time.
Over 30 years, the best way would be to teach someone new. Especially a child.
Educational computing is how Apple built their market, and how the Raspberry Pi is gently gaining market adoption for Linux. There's some LOGO code from 1997 that I wrote on a Mac Plus (and copied forwards repeatedly) at age 7, that still runs on Mini vMac.
The challenge is in finding someone else who believes in your posterity just as much as you. And that's just one challenge of having kids. (thankfully I'm yet to experience that responsibility).