On 01 Oct 2007, at 07:33, Dunn, David wrote:
The whole dilemma was a discussion in some of my classes at Weber State 20 years ago. I have seen large computers that were kept around just so that the data that was saved to a tape or disk could still be viewed.
That's the route I've taken. I've still got the old 1984 MacPlus (still works great, if slowly, and even gets on the net which is kind of fun) as well as my G3 and G4. Fortunately the G4 runs virtually everything the older machines ran so I guess I'll be ok as long as it keeps running. BTW, I'm still a bit miffed at Apple for not allowing the new machines the option to boot up in OS9. The original version of OSX did allow that (which would run those 20+ year old files) but the new OSX will not. patrick