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Sounds like a contender for the longest-ever lasting digital backup.

• AStonesThrow 2y ago
  I would contend that it's more like a printout, or recompile from source, because of all-new materials... https://xkcd.com/1683/ https://xkcd.com/1683/ It's unsurprising too, if you consider that buildings almost always have their blueprints and designs on file with the government, and stored somewhere. The wealthy may have a "keep it all together and shove it in the attic" mindset; in 2002 I picked up a Macintosh Plus at a garage sale, and it was packaged fully functional, with accessories, cables, Print Shop, Golf, Flight Simulator, etc., all manuals, receipts from the store, and an article clipping about this new up-and-coming software company with Bill Gates at the helm.
  • HeyLaughingBoy 2y ago
    I started my career sitting in front of a PC running XYWrite, next to a MacPaint manual that I was supposed to copy for our MacPaint clone. "Just change enough text so it doesn't look like we copied it..." And yet, I have never actually used an Apple product except for an in-house test application running on an iPhone.
    • AStonesThrow 2y ago
      So you put on your résumé: "Human OCR scribe copyist-monk." "Job obsoleted by reCAPTCHA, Google Books in 2005?" Then apply to work for archive.is or something
    • rietta 2y ago
      Nota Bene is still a thing! The descendant of XYWrite!