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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoogleEmpMog" data-source="post: 3496454" data-attributes="member: 22882">I have Commodore 64 games well over 20 years old.  They worked fine on the C-64 20th anniversary in 2002, despite being on rather fragile 5.25" floppies and being subjected to Florida wet heat, Colorado dry heat and cold, and years of storage.  I admit, I haven't hooked up my C-64 in a couple of years, but as of the last time I did ('05, I think?), I actually hadn't lost one game.I have word processor files that are going on 20 years old - I didn't have a word processor until the late '80s and my first x86 IBM-compatible, so I doubt they're quite that long-lived yet.  They've survived transitions across a half dozen computers (to say nothing of innumerable backup disks, and later backup CDs).  The last time I referenced one?  January of this year.  Needless to say, it worked fine and is still compatible with MS Word.Barring the near-total collapse of the industrialized world (in which case I, for one, expect to have considerably graver concerns than whether my D&D collection is safe), people who have computers now are unlikely not to have them in the future for more than a brief span.Even if, by some imponderable chance, a substantive portion of the world's population lost access to computers but still had time and security enough to engage in 4-8 hour liesure activities, you could always have printed the material out and likely still paid less for it.Me, too.I've lost access to probably MILLIONS of printed words over the years because I didn't have the storage space for hundreds of books and magazines.  I've lost maybe a hundred thousand digital words over the years because I was lazy about backing up my computers.If you're speaking as a COLLECTOR, I can understand your objections and even sympathise with them.  Insofar as magazine collections have value (and to be fair, a quick glance at ebay indicates they do), the Digital Initiative is a bad way to go.  Insofar as having access to the materials for gaming purposes, however - I'm not seeing it, at all.</blockquote>

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