Free Software Magazine: Digital Archaeology of the Microcomputer, 1974-1994

“In a few years time, it will be impossible to study the history
of home computers since everything at the time was proprietary;
both in terms of the physical hardware, and all the software that
ran upon it since most of it is encumbered by software ‘protection’
to prevent copying.

“To compound the problem, the hardware is dying (literally) and
(being proprietary) can’t be rebuilt in any equivalent
manner…”

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