Lars Aronsson (lars(a)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.