[Foundation-l] Re: Proposal for Wiki Project

[David Gerard]

Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se) [050103 21:51]:

> During my 22 years of programming, I have shifted operating systems
> and programming languages many times, but only once (in 1990) have I
> shifted character sets (from ASCII to ISO 8859-1).  Soon I will shift
> again to Unicode/UTF-8, which I hope to use for the rest of my life.
> If I had saved them and copied them to my next computer, I could still
> read the plain text files I wrote in 1982.  Actually, I still keep
> some print-outs from 1984 and I should retype them before the ink
> fades away. I still have saved e-mails from 1986 on my current disk.


Just scan them in - the scans will take proportionately about as much disk
space as the printouts would have on a floppy of the era ;-)


- d.