[TheForge] History of The Forge/OT

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

There's Irony right there Stephen......Pete

Stephen McGehee wrote:

>Ain't it funny how we have come to believe in the permanence of data
>written on something as slippery and  impermanent as a hard disk?  An
>Archive? If you were to break one of those suckers open, you could not
>even scrape off the ones and zeros onto a clean sheet of paper and hire
>zealots to piece them together like the contents of a paper shredder.
>Ten year old information?, lets see, that stuff was on the machine that
>died in '97 or was it '86 and on the old Kaypro II ?  I have an old,
>solid aluminum, portable Kaypro with a huge 16 MB hard drive, wonder
>what's on that disc?
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