David Locklear said:
>I think the next hurdle is to develop a laptop that doesn't use
batteries, and uses a crank and some kind of power saving device not
affected by storage.
Why not make your computer solar powered? I don't know the
expected lifetime of solar panels, but ones stored dry and in the
dark might last a long time. Take them and your archived computer
out into the sun and let 'er rip. Presumably there will still be
sunshine, unless the future is a Matrix sort of
world. ;-) Actually, electricity will still likely be used and
available in some form for a long time. Just provide a simple set of
terminals on your computer and any power source of the future with
the proper voltage and amperage should work. The bigger problem
would be communicating anything 500 years into the future. What
language would you use?
Bill Mixon said:
>Anyway, there wouldn't be any convenient way to get the data out of
the computer, even if you could read it on screen.
It seems likely that some sort of scanning technology will
be around for quite a while. Assuming the language on the screen
could be understood, it shouldn't be too much trouble to scan it, or
take the equivalent of movies of it, and then convert that into
whatever the current digital format is. Again the bigger problem
would be making the archived output meaningful. Pictures might be
better than anything written.
Mark
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