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[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Kevin Handy wrote:

> Do you believe future people will be that much stupider than people
> are today, and that all information about computers will have been
> totally lost?

I think this assumption needs to be made.  It's safer.

> Make the archive useful to us, now. Let people 500 years from now
> figure it out for themselves.

That's not the definition of an "archive".  You're thinking of a library.

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