-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-07-03 15:55, Anton Aylward wrote:
What happens when that not quite compatible with IBM hardware fails and the program that was written specifically for that hardware just has to keep running or the company goes under?
Well... The NASA has a lot of data from "deep" space missions that they couldn't even read from the tapes. They had, I think, to re-manufacture at least a pair of tape units just to recover the data and store it in hard disks instead, or something. What I don't know is if they also had to create drivers and interfaces to connect to a modern computer, or they salvaged a pdp11 or whatever it was that used those tapes. And the NASA is not the only organization facing similar issues. Ask any library with digital records. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlWWljsACgkQja8UbcUWM1zKywD/TrjyE9ENxXv3Gr9MJmQJE9sP Ty0PDu+yS8DXMjINn3gBAIVQ90/07XyY+xZroVb+2DN6pHjb8D5tjEeOsaR1U+Tz =jRSh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org