Disasters and Recovery

From: D. Peschel <dpeschel_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Sun Jan 17 18:41:29 1999

Doug Yowza wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, D. Peschel wrote:

> > I wonder if the hard drive and motherboard manufacturers would have any
> > sympathy for people who are making time capsules and give out their
> > proprietary information? Probably not but it's worth a shot. :)
>
> Yes, I was thinking about that, but if you change the rules or widen the
> scope, this discussion will definitely have to move to its own mailing
> list. All you need to do is get Bill Gates, or some other rich ego
> maniac, involved, and they'll fund the 100-year computer and even throw
> the source code for Windows 98 in there as well.

Change the rules? I thought the point was to get complete information, by
whatever means. (Well, by whatever _ethical_ means.)

I was thinking of getting the information at the component level. If I got
Bill Gates involved, the result would be a rather unrealistic design. (It
would probably comply with Microsoft's PC99 spec. And probably the spec --
along with every single Microsoft Press book -- would end up in the time
capsule.) Also, I would be too tempted to break into the capsule and get
the source code out.

-- Derek
Received on Sun Jan 17 1999 - 18:41:29 GMT