I was searching for old PCs with ISA slots, apparently one computer manufacturer in USA still makes PCs with ISA slots when it realised how heavily some industry or machinery depends on older hardware that once ran on ISA slots, though a bit pricey, they are adapting modern fast processors to integrate or adapt to old style ISA slots, so there is still some hope that all is not lost yet.
Imagine if NASA send a space mission to a distance galaxy, and when it reaches it with new propulsion systems travelling at thousand times faster than our current technology, some 100 years later, no one on earth would recognise the signals or formats sent back if software cannot last 100 years whilst the spacecraft may well last all that time.
I feel sorry for Radio Hams, no more short waves and long waves as digital revolution killed all those hobbies. Internet is the boss now. I still don't know what the heck is the new thing we are being told will take over everything and it is called Cloud. Do we need more clouds or do we need more sunshine? If technology starts moving faster than we can adapt it, we will trip and fall on our face and bruise badly. There are older folks who still have no clue how to operate a simple computer system, my wife is included in that, she cannot even turn on or off a computer, she does not even know how a smart phone works. She has a problem working an old Nokia!
Imagine if NASA send a space mission to a distance galaxy, and when it reaches it with new propulsion systems travelling at thousand times faster than our current technology, some 100 years later, no one on earth would recognise the signals or formats sent back if software cannot last 100 years whilst the spacecraft may well last all that time.
I feel sorry for Radio Hams, no more short waves and long waves as digital revolution killed all those hobbies. Internet is the boss now. I still don't know what the heck is the new thing we are being told will take over everything and it is called Cloud. Do we need more clouds or do we need more sunshine? If technology starts moving faster than we can adapt it, we will trip and fall on our face and bruise badly. There are older folks who still have no clue how to operate a simple computer system, my wife is included in that, she cannot even turn on or off a computer, she does not even know how a smart phone works. She has a problem working an old Nokia!