Wayne Wilson wrote: > > Tim Churches wrote: > > > >But where are the systems to remind us of things which > >were encrypted 10 years ago? > > > Much more serious than re-encrypting every so often is moving entire > formatted information systems from one technology to another. > Anyone still read WANG 8" Floppy WP documents?
Actually, yes. I have an NEC APC I computer in my shed with 32 kb of RAM and twin 8 inch (really) floppy disc drives. It came with nifty locally-written work processor called OK-Editor which could (can) read Wang word processor format discs (remembering that Wang machines ran their own Wang OS and had their own disc formats, not just their own file formats). Last time I switched it on a few years ago it still worked fine. Send me your discs, and I'll send you back 8 inch CP/M formatted floppies with your documents in WordStar format.... Tim C Sydney, Australia
