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[Dwight K. Elvey]

>From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at siconic.com>
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>On Thu, 19 May 2005, Kevin Handy wrote:
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>> 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.
>
Hi Sellam
 I've been trying to explain the difference between an archive
and distribution of data. So far, they just don't get it.
Dwight