Seeking reverse-engineers - Apple II VisiCalc

[Tony Duell]

> > In the future, we won't be burning to pieces of plastic for archiving. 
> > I fully expect to be archiving exclusively to hard disks in 10 years and 

And I'll probably still be making little holes in 1" wide strips of paper 
....

> > SSDs in 15.  Eventually in 25 years all storage (flash/ssd/hard 
> > disks/tape/BD-R/DVD-R/etc.) will converge into a single technology.



> 
> Why do I get this feeling that we're writing our history in 
> quicksand?  
> 
> Letters the young Mozart exchanged with his sister are still extant 
> to give us a unique peek into the composer's mind.  Will we have the 
> emails of a modern Mozart to similarly peruse in the future?  

Or as I'm fonf of pointing out, if you hand me a glass plate photographic 
negaticve, I can still make a print from it, even though said negative 
could be 100 years old. Will anybody be ale to read digital camera memory 
cards in 100 years time?

-tony