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128 points rbanffy | 1 comments | 08 Nov 25 16:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.271s | source

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notorandit ◴[08 Nov 25 17:39 UTC] No.45858442[source]▶

I have mixed feelings.

On one side I think we need to preserve this relic as we did with Homer's poetry. Because it just deserves.

On another side I think we won't (and should not) try to preserve in an infinite present whatever has been written by humanity. For what purpose?

1. Johnny555 ◴[08 Nov 25 19:21 UTC] No.45859180[source]▶

There's so little cost to store the contents of a single 9 track tape that there doesn't need to be any reason at all to do it.

52 Year old data tape could contain Unix history